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GENERAL library
Knowlson Resigns From WPB . 1
Yankee Net Sale O.K'ed As ^wo Commissioners Dissent . 3
Yale Professor New Deputy Communications Director..
Radio Most Important In Reconstruction, Says Mullen
Louis Ruppel Going Into Marines .
FTC Cramps Style Of Scranton Station .
McDonald Starts Campaign To Popularize "Radionics”.
Horae Town Honors Niles Trammell .
FTC Examines 1,000,000 Continuities in 1942 .
Vichy Suspends Radio Set Manufacture.. .
RCA Mfg. Co. Merger Looked Upon As Organization Change . 9
War Effects Varied In Radio And Wire Business . 9
Calls Radio Best Converted Industry . 10
Trade Notes . 11
No. 1492
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January 5, 1943
KNOWLSON RESIGNS FROM WPB
Resignation of James S. Knowlson as Vice Chairman of the
War Production Board was announced Monday by Chairman Donald M. Nelson.
In making the announcement Mr. Nelson said that he was retaining Mr.
Knowlson within the WpB organization on a "when actually employed"
basis, so that he could be called on as a consultant or special assist¬
ant from time to time.
Mr. Knowlson, who was formerly president of the Radio Manu¬
facturers’ Association, resigned in order to return to his duties as
President and Chairman of the Board of the Stewart- Warner Corporation
in Chicago, This firm has a large volume of war orders, and Mr.
Knowlson - who came to Washington 15 months ago expecting to stay
three months - felt that he could no longer remain away from its helm.
In September, 1941, Mr„ Knowlson entered the Office of
Production Management as Deputy Director of Priorities. After the
War Production Board was established he was made Director of Industry
Operations, in which post he was responsible for initiating and exec¬
uting the vast program for conversion of peace-time industry to war
work. In a letter accepting his resignation, Mr. Nelson asserted
that "the fact that this country today is devoting approximately 40
percent of its total output to munitions is in no small measure due
to the way in which you handled that Job".
Last Summer Mr. Knowlson was made Vice Chairman of the War
Production Board, and was designated to serve as Mr. Nelson’s deputy
on the Combined Production and Resources Board. A new deputy on the
CPRB will be named by Mr. Nelson.
Mr. Knowlson9 a letter of resignation, and Mr. Nelson’s
letter to him in reply, follow*
December 16, 1942
Mr. Donald M. Nelson,
Room 5055
Social Security Building
My dear Don:
It has long been understood between us that it was necessary for
me to get back to my regular Job at an early date. On my last trip to
Chicago it became perfectly obvious that it was inadvisable for me to
postpone this time any further, and I am therefore asking you to
accept my resignation effective not later than January 1.
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As you know, I came down here with the idea of being here three,
and possibly six months and that time now has been extended to well
over a year and a quarter. You also know how greatly I have esteemed
the privilege, of being associated with you in this work and how much
I value the friends and acquaintances I have made. It is an experl-
ence I shall never forget or regret.
Truly yours,
(Signed) J. S. Knowlson
My dear Jim:
I know how you feel, and I realize that the immense amount of
war work which your company is doing makes your return to your work
there imperative.
However, in view of the splendid work you have done here and the
great help which you have given me personally, I would like to feel
that I can continue to call on you in case of need, therefore, in¬
stead of accepting your resignation, I am taking the liberty of plac¬
ing you on a "when actually employed" basis, so that I may from time
to time have the benefit of your help as a consultant and trouble¬
shooter on special jobs.
I would also like to take this occasion to say to you in writing
that the country is indebted to you for the remarkably thorough and
effective work which you did as Director of Industry Operations in
bringing about the conversion to war production of our great consumer
goods industries. The fact that this country today is devoting appro¬
ximately 40 percent of its total output to munitions is in no small
measure due to the way in which you handled that job, and the record
is one of which you may well be proud.
Like everyone else in this organization who has had any contact
with you, I shall be extremely sorry to see you leave. Only the fact
that your job in industry is of vital importance to the war program
makes it possible for me to consent to your departure.
Sincerely yours,
(Signed) Donald M. Nelson
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Labor-management committees are directing War Production
Drives in a total of 1900 American war plants, representing approxi¬
mately 3,750,000 employees. Among the 100 plants in which labor-
management committees have been formed is the Utah Radio Products
Company of Chicago,
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YANKEE NET SALE O.K’ED AS TWO COMMISSIONERS DISSENT
As their final work in 1942, the Federal Communications
Commission en banc approved the transfer of control of The Yankee Net¬
work, Inc. , licensee of four standard broadcast stations, four relay
stations, two experimental stations, and two high frequency stations,
through the sale of the capital stock of The Winter Street Corpora¬
tion (which owns 100 per cent control of The Yankee Network), by John
Shepard, 3rd, and George R. Blodgett, trustees, to The General Tire
and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio. Commissioners Walker and Durr dis¬
sented.
The sum of $1,240,000 will be paid, plus an additional
amount to be determined on the date of the transfer equal to 94 per
cent of the aggregate net quick assets of the seller over $100,000,
There is also being sold to The General Tire and Rubber
Company, as a part of the same transaction, all of the capital stock
of The Colonial Network, Inc. , which is owned 50 percent by John
Shepard, 3rd, and 50 percent by his brother, Robert F. Shepard. ■ Col¬
onial is not a licensee of a broadcast station, its income being de¬
rived principally from the sale of station time and wired transcrip¬
tion service to subscribers.
In addition to its position of licensee, The Yankee Network,
Inc. is engaged in the operation of a network broadcast system employ¬
ing as outlets the four broadcast stations licensed to it and 17
contract outlets or affiliated stations located in the States of
Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Vermont.
Commissioner Walker set forth the following views in connec¬
tion with his dissent:
’’The application should be set for hearing. A finding
that a transfer shall be in the public interest is mandatory.
The application herein does not show on Its face, or contain
therein, convincing facts that the public interest would be
served by the prooosed transfer. A public hearing would,
therefore, seem advisable.
’’The application should, in any event, be set for hear¬
ing on the issue of transferring broadcast stations to another
industry. The instant application involves not only the con¬
trol of certain broadcast stations but also of The Yankee Net¬
work, Inc.
’’Broadcasting is of such public interest and importance
that an effort should be made to keep it separate from other
businesses. If a transfer of chain broadcasting interests,
as herein proposed, may be granted to a tire and rubber com¬
pany, may it not likewise be granted to a motor company or to
a public utility? The precedent having once been established
of transferring licenses controlling a network to other inter¬
ests, where can the line be drawn? Chain broadcasting is of
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such vital public consequence and public interest that it
should be a business in and of itself, and disassociated
from any other business. "
Commissioner Durr, dissenting, wrote:
"I think the application should be set for hearing. First,
a question of absentee ownership and control is presented. The sta¬
tions involved in the transfer are all located in New England. The
control is now in the hands of people who are residents of New England
and familiar with its problems and needs. Transferee is an Ohio cor¬
poration with its principal place of business in Akron. Its officers
and directors are residents of Ohio with the exception of one who
resides in Florida. With the exception of two brokerage houses in
New York City, all stockholders owning 1% or more of the outstanding
capital stock are residents of Ohio. Nor does the application show
that the transferee and those controlling it have a familiarity with
or interest in the problems of the New England area. Accordingly,
I do not believe that sufficient showing has been made to warrant a
finding that the transfer of control would be in the public interest.
"Second, the transferee is a large manufacturing concern
wnose products have a nationwide distribution. By this transfer it
will acquire, as an adjunct to its private business operations, a
number of broadcasting stations which together serve a major portion
of the New England states. With the networks to be acquired as a part
of the same transaction, it will have access by radio to virtually the
entire New England area.
"The issue presented here is not whether interests engaged
in other lines of business should be prevented from owning any broad¬
casting stations, but rather the extent to which they should be per¬
mitted to go in the acquisition of such stations. Unless some limit¬
ation is imposed, they may embark upon a program of station acquisi¬
tion which will force their competitors, and even concerns in entirely
different lines of business, to follow the same course in order to
survive. Such a course would tend to make radio broadcasting an
adjunct of private commercial enterprise instead of the independent
medium of entertainment and expression which it must be if it is
really to serve the public interest. Moreover, the war has greatly
accelerated the tendency toward bigness in industrial concerns which
has long been under way. Will it be in the public interest to con¬
solidate under a common control the economic power of large business
establishments and the power to mold public opinion which is Inherent
in the operation of broadcasting stations?
''These are questions which I believe should be carefully
investigated before the application Is granted. *
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1/5/43
YALE PROFESSOR NEW DEPUTY COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR
Appointment of Francis T. McNamara, Associate Professor of
Electrical Engineering at Yale University since 1923, to be Deputy
Director of the Communications Equipment Division of the War Produc¬
tion Board, was announced by Leighton H. Peebles, Director of the
Division.
In addition to his duties as a member of the Yale faculty,
Mr. McNamara has served as electrical consultant for the Connecticut
Public Utilities Commission since 1939, In this capacity, he hae
reviewed the electrical engineering activities and technical practices
of all utilities operating within the State, including telephone and
telegraph companies.
Mr. McNamara is also Secretary of the Connecticut Board of
Examiners for the registration of professional engineers.
From 1926 to 1932, he taught a graduate course at Yale In
telegraphy and telephony for officers sent to that university for
advanced education by the Signal Corps, Army Air Force and Navy.
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RADIO MOST IMPORTANT IN RECONSTRUCTION, SAYS MULLEN
Although radio plays an increasingly important role in what
we call the war effort, its greatest contribution lies in the service
it will render at the peace table and during the era of reconstruc¬
tion after the war, Frank E. Mullen, Vice-President and Seneral
Manager of the National Broadcasting Company believes.
"Less than a Quarter of a century ago, the nation marvelled
when the National Broadcasting Company was able to group together a
few radio stations in different cities for the first network broad¬
cast", said Mr. Mullen. "Measured by present-day audiences an insig¬
nificant number of listeners heard that program. Today we dismiss
without wonderment the fact that it is almost a daily occurrence to
encircle the globe by radio, carrying important programs to hundreds
of millions. The miraculous has become commonplace in an Incredibly
short span of years.
"President Wilson was almost bewildered at the complexity
of the problems at Versailles. Conflicting nationalistic aims, fierce
desire for revenge, and the sabotage of the fourteen points on which
the armistice was based, all combined to defeat a lasting peace. Per-
naps a permanent peace was impossible anyway, but it was foredoomed
before the first line of the treaty was written. Secrecy and greed
became indispensible allies as the rights of small nations were
bartered away.
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"The people wno are fighting this war are determined that
this tragedy shall not happen again. This peace must be a people's
peace, written as solemn guarantee that the treaty shall not be merely
a truce while nations prepare for the next conflict. This time we
really shall have open covenants openly arrived at.
"Radio, in dozens of languages, will inform the world
regarding every step of negotiations. Peace emissaries will report
by radio to their respective nations in a great referendum vote of
public opinion. Thus, when the most important document ever written
in history is ready for signature, its contents will be known to,
and have the approval of tnose whose future is bound up in it. Radio
will have fulfilled its destiny. "
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LOUIS RUPPEL GOING- INTO MARINES
Louis Ruppel, former CBS publicity director, will leave the
Crowell Publications to become a First Lieutenant in the Marine Corps.
He expects to be assigned to the aerial photography and
map-making branch of the air service.
Mr. Rupee 1 was formerly the Managing Editor of the Chicago
Times. As a correspondent he covered Albany when Franklin D. Roose¬
velt was Governor. While there, Mr. Roosevelt presented him with an
autographed photo which, if this writer remembers it correctly, was
inscribed: "To Louis Ruppel, who taught me everything I know about
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FTC CRAMPS STYLE OF SCRANTON STATION
Scranton Broadcasters, Inc., operating radio station WGBI,
Scranton, Pa. , engaged in selling the use of its radio transmittal
facilities and power, has stipulated with the Federal Trade Commission
to cease and desist from representing that WGBI is the only radio sta¬
tion heard in the Scranton- Wilkes-Barre market area; that outside
radio stations are not heard in that area; that WGBI is the only
regional or clear channel station serving the Scranton-Wilke s-Barre
market area; that the station covers the entire area of Northeastern
Pennsylvania, or that a survey snows that 98 percent of the daytime
listeners or 96 percent of the nighttime listeners in Scranton’s home
county of Lackawanna regularly listen to WGBI, or from misrepresenting
in any manner the station* s audience or coverage as shown by surveys
or otherwise.
Scranton Broadcasters, Inc. , further agree to cease and
desist from misrepresenting through exaggeration the number of pros¬
pective purchasers who listen to WGBI or the territory which it covers,
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McDonald starts campaign to popularize "radionics"
As a further step in his fight on the word ‘“electronics ",
Commander E. F. McDonald, Jr. , President of the Zenith Radio Corpora¬
tion of Chicago, has Just launched an advertising campaign to estab¬
lish tne word “'radionics" in the public mind. It Is his contention
that the radio industry should not allow itself to be swallowed up
by the designation "electronics".
"I think we ought to protect our investment in the name
'radio'", he declared.
The first Zenith advertisement using the word "radionics"
will appear in the Wal Street Journal, Chicago Journal of Commerce,
Chicago Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Herald American, Chicago
Sun, New York Times, New York Daily News and the Washington Post.
The ad, carrying the Army-Navy "E " Pennant, the War Bond
flag, and the Service flag, reads as follows l
"With the dawn of the New Year, we should all strive to
excel - to better perform the tasks which will aid in shortening the
w a r.
"Zenith is proud to be a part of the great industrial force
of this country which is producing War Radio and Radlonic apparatus
for our armed forces - and resolves to continue to do its utmost in
producing the war equipment so vital to Victory.
"Ezactly what Zenith is making is a military secret, but
we can tell you we are dealing with the thing we know best - Radio
and Radionics exclusively.
"To the millions of Zenith owners - to its many friends
in the industry - to its distributors and dealers Zenitn wishes the
best of everything for the year to come.
"Zenith Radio Corporation, Chicago, Illinois"
XXXXXXXXX
HOME TOWN HONORS NILES TRAMMELL
Niles Trammell, President of the National Broadcasting
Company, on a visit to his old home town, Marietta, Ga. , has been pro
claimed "a lifelong and permanent citizen of Marietta". The visitor
was welcomed home by a group of his boyhood friends headed by Mayor
L. M. Blair, who issued the proclamation. Members of the local fire
department lined up in the public square as part of the reception com
mlttee.
Mr. Trammell, after spending his boyhood in Marietta, went
to the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn. , and then served in
France during World War I. After the war he entered radio and advanc
ed rapidly.
X X X X X X
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1/3/42
FTC EXAMINES 1,000,000 CONTINUITIES IN 1942
The Federal Trade Commission has submitted to Congress its
28th annual report covering activities of the fiscal year 1941-42.
In addition to performing its regular statutory duties in
the administration of the laws over which it has Jurisdiction, the
Commission conducted 16 wartime investigations for various war agen¬
cies, including the War Production Board and the Office of Price
Administration, A continuing survey of war-related advertising
appearing in newspapers and periodicals end broadcast over the radio
also was made for the Office of Censorship and other agencies*
In connection with its continuing survey of radio and
periodical advertising, the Commission examined about 381,000 news¬
paper, magazine, and other periodical advertisements and more than
1,000,000 commercial radio continuities, of which aporoximately
19,000 advertisements and 18,000 broadcasts were designated for
further review as containing representations that might be false or
mi sleading.
The annual report notes that the Commission, in general,
has received the cooperation of the radio and publishing industries
and "has observed a desire on the part of these broadcasters and
publishers to aid in the elimination of false and misleading adver¬
tising. "
After the United States entered the war, some of the war
agencies made use of the system long established by the Commission
for conducting comprehensive surveys of radio and periodical adver¬
tising on a continuing basis. At the request of the Office of
Censorship, the Commission analyzed, and reported to that agency,
such advertising as contained any reference to certain war- related
subjects or possible violations of the codes of wartime practices for
the press and radio. Other reports on war-related advertising were
made to the War Production Board and the Office of Price Adminis¬
tration. The material thus surveyed for the war agencies comprised
all advertising broadcast over the national and regional networks and
samplings of that broadcast over all individual stations; as well as
advertisements in 533 magazines, 463 newspapers, 25 domestic news¬
papers printed in European languages, and 19 domestic newspapers
printed in Oriental languages.
XXXXXXXXXX
VICHY SUSPENDS RADIO SET MANUFACTURE
Soon the French will have only the news Pierre Laval wishes
them to have with the elimination of foreign broadcasts", a Berne
dispatch reads. The French learned today that the tax on receiving
sets had been doubled and that the manufacture of sets had been sus¬
pended until measures were taken to control production, with the
obvious inference that the new models will not permit the hearing of
British and American broadcasts.
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RCA MFG. CO. MERGER LOOKED UPON AS ORGANIZATION CHANGE
The consolidation of the RCA Manufacturing Company with
the Radio Corporation of America, its parent company, December 31,
was explained by a spokesman of the company as merely an organization
change.
The RCA Manufacturing Company has approximately 30,000
employees and is now chiefly engaged in producing radio equipment
vital to the war effort. Its principal plants are located in Camden
and Harrison, New Jersey; Indianapolis and Bloomington, Indiana;
Lancaster, Pennsylvania; and Hollywood, California. The RCA Labor¬
atories are located at Princeton, New Jersey. The manufacturing
organization will be known as the RCA Victor Division of Radio Cor¬
poration of America. The management, personnel, operations, and sales
policies will continue as heretofore.
"The unification of the administrative, research and manu¬
facturing activities of RCA will result In closer coordination and
increased flexibility of operation", David Sarnoff, RCA President,
stated. "It is expected that tnis unity and coordination of services
will facilitate the company ls war efforts. "
Mr. Sarnoff also announced that at the meeting of the Board,
George K. Throckmorton, former Chairman of the Executive Committee, of
RCA Manufacturing Company, was elected a Vice President of the Radio
Corporation of Anerica, of which Mr. Throckmorton is a Director,
XXXXXXXXXX
WAR E^vvCTS VARIED IN RADIO AND WIRE BUSINESS
The effect of the war on the fortunes of communications com¬
panies has not been uniform, according to James L. ^ly. Chairman,
Federal Communications Commission and Board of War Communications,
"At one extreme the telephone and telegraph companies, engaged in
long-distance traffic, have enjoyed substantial increase in gross
earnings, while the local telephone companies in the cities have done
moderately well", Mr. Fly said,
"At the other extreme, many small broadcasting stations
dependent on the revenue flowing from local advertisers have suffer¬
ed a material decline in earnings. In between, the national networks
and the large broadcasting stations have done fairly well.
"During a war, the Federal Government becomes the best cus¬
tomer of the long lines of the telephone and telegraph companies.
For example, at the end of Au&ust, 1941, the United States was using
23 private telephone wires, totaling 5300 miles. On August 31, 1942,
the number of such circuits was more than 300 and the mileage more
than 150,000. During the same period, the Government usage of tele¬
type and telegraph circuits quadrupled.
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Due to the policy of large national advertisers of retain¬
ing their radio time and using it to promote good will and preserve
trade names, the large broadcasting stations and the networks are
nolding their revenues and, in certain instances, increasing them.
Taxes and man-power are their chief worries , With the little fellows,
it is another story.
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caster are in the same spot. They are experiencing difficulty in
meeting expenses.
There is outstanding significance in the growth of our
international communications as a result of the war. These circuits,
both wire and wireless, have been catapaulted by the war from a posi¬
tion of remote interest to one of dominant importance. They are be¬
ing utilized now in maintaining an American battlefront stretching
around the world. After the war, they will connect us to a world
community.
At this time, I hope we shall have one strong private com¬
pany in the international radiotelegraph and cable field (instead of
the 10 that now exist) which will be able to compete successfully
with the big foreign companies, many of which are protected and pro¬
moted by their governments.
XXXXXXXX
CALLS RADIO BEST CONVERTED INDUSTRY
Appraisal of the wartime work of the radio manufacturing
industry was made by John K. Hutchens, writing in the New York ^imes:
"Who is making what, and where, is a military secret, for
obvious reasons. So is tne exact amount of communications material
delivered to the Government in 1942. But the overall achievement of
the industry is no secret. It is so great that Ray C. Ellis, Director
of the WPB Radio Division, could say in his Washington office the
other day: 9 Radio is our best converted industry. 9 "
"What is now concentrating on is receiving and sending sets
for tanks, planes, surface craft, submarines; "walkie-talkie" and
other field sets; tubes and batteries by the millions; detector de¬
vices; amplifiers, wire, , telephones, transmitters, teletypewriters,
direction finders, radio locaters, altimeters, switchboards, public
address systems; in snort, a catalog of articles and devices, some
of them non- radio but all of them essential to that communications
system which is the nerve center of mechanical warfare. 11
"Of all that the radio industry now produces, about 80 per
cent goes to the Army Signal Corps (including the equipment it pro¬
cures for the Army Air Force and the Army Armored Force) and 20 per
cent to the Navy, with the FBI, civilian aviation, Forest service,
police service and other agencies receiving only a small fraction of
the entire output. Once delivered to the armed forces, the equipment
is a sort of pool, in the sense that all types of communications work
in close collaboration. "
XXXXXXXX
- 10 - _
1/4/43
: : : : TRADE NOTES
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At the request of the Board of War Communications,, the FCC
allocated two additional police frequencies 7805 and 7935 to the
international broadcast service for the duration of the war. On the
basis that the broadcast transmissions will be intended for reception
outside the continental United States and that most of the zone and
inter- zone police communication on these frequencies occurs during
daylight hours, it is not expected that the police service will cause
any interference to the international broadcast service ,
The exemption from price control of radio fixed capacitors
for military use today was extended from January 1, 1943, to April 1,
1943, Capacitors, known also as condensers, are essential parts of
radio apparatus. Production for military uses has expanded at a
rapid rate but the program has not reached the desired point of stab¬
ility for the purposes of price regulation, OPA announced.
During the additional exemption period it is believed the
industry will complete its expansion program and in the meanwhile
responsibility over prices of fixed radio capacitors remains with the
Army and Navy.
Arthur Miller, formerly Eastern Editor of Movie- Radio Guide,
has joined the CBS Publicity Department, Mr, Miller will be in the
Magazine Division, working with Helen Brattrud, who heads the Division.
Henri C. Bohle, formerly Assistant Vice President, has been
elected a Vice President of the International Standard Electric Cor¬
poration, a subsidiary of the International telephone and Telegraph
Corporation, which controls the greater part of I, T. & T. 1 s manu¬
facturing properties outside the United States,
Mr. Bohle has served the International Standard Electric
Corporation and Its predecessors for thirty-one years. He was born
In Antwerp and came to this country at the age of 18.
Lieut, Comdr. Walter Winchell of the United States Navy
has arrived in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the Rio de Janeiro radio announced
in a broadcast recorded by the FCC. The Broadway columnist, on what
was said when he left the United States to be ’*a confidential mission 15
was accompanied by a representative of the Brazilian Department of
information and Press.
The Radio Bureau of the OWI will be glad to confer at any
time with stations or networks on programming contemplated to combat
rumor. "The subject is not an easy one”, says OWI, ''but we shall
have gone far toward solving it when we realize this commonsense
fact - the best antidote for rumor is Information, "
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NATIONAL BROADCASTING COMPANY,
GENERAL LIBRARY
30 ROCKEFELLER/Pj^ZA, NEW YORK, N. Y.
INDEX TO ISSUE OF JANUARY 8, 1943
Editor Charges Press Service Inferior To Radio. . 1
Senator Clark Reintroduces Petrillo Bill . 3
Congressman Cox Again Moves To Investigate FCC .
NBC And U. of C. Sponsor West Coast Radio Institute
Knowlson Exit Said To Foreshadow More WPB Blow- •Ups.
It Is Major Gillingham Now .
Claims Radio Didn’t Do The Job In Adless N.Y . .
U. S. Soldiers In Newfoundland Stage Radio Series...
Asks Why Most Radio Speakers Are Not Natural .
Telegraph Merger Bill Reintroduced. .
Do You Know This Radio Gentleman? .
NBC Officials Escort Song Contest Winner To Capital . 10
Odd Requests Pour Into New WLW Mail Department . 10
American Industry Contributes War Radio Sinews. . 11
NBC Takes 11 Top Places In Hooper Survey . 11
No. 1493
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EDITOR CHARGES PRESS SERVICE INFERIOR TO RADIO
Considerable dissatisfaction with the news performance
of American newspapers, as compared to radio, especially on Washing¬
ton affairs, is expressed in a letter sent last week to officers and
directors of the American Newspaper Publishers’ Association by Clare
Marshall, editorial director of the Cedar Rapids (la,) Gazette, in
he says:
"Freedom of the press is not predicated upon cash register
te chnique.
,f If through our columns, both local and by wire, the
American press continues to fall short of the public service render¬
ed by radio (a government-licensed agency) then we shall lose our
freedom.
"If the Associated Press suit had for Its object intimida¬
tion, then, in our opinion, the goal has already been attained. Even
as subscribers to the U.P. and INS and as a member of the AP, this
newspaper feels it is not rendering the service newswise which is our
obligation, demanded of a free press. As recent evidence:
”1, Wire service stories on reason for Leon Henderson’s
resignation - 1 lame back. 5 Why isn’t the real story told. Radio
does it.
"2. Abuses and violations of all . rationing regulations in
Washington. Listen to FUlton Lewis, Jr.'s radio recital of the evi¬
dence.
"3. Bogging down of patriotic American industry and labor
by all the bureaucratic agencies requesting multitudinous reoorts.
Again, listen to radio uncover the horrible situation. Try to find
the full story in all the wire services, "
And further,
"Someone will say that newspapers here and there do show
enterprise and are presenting the true picture of events and condi¬
tions by going off their regular beats to dig up real facts.
"True enough, but they are few and widely scattered.
"They are mere voices crying in the wilderness.
"There is no co-ordinated effort. The Cedar Rapids Gaz¬
ette may unearth a bad situation in a bureaucratic setup; so might
the Baltimore Sun and the Los Angeles Times, but each does not know
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what the other is doing. Some kind of a co-ordinated group could
lift the story out of the corners of the country to a nationwide
status. It would be published generally and, with the entire news¬
paper profession Joining in the effort, effective pressure could be
brought to bear on the proper authorities.
"As it is now, officials are too prone to consider one
newspaper's constructive criticism, based on hitherto little known
fact, as isolated and unimoortant.
"At the same time, a radio commentator speaks once and
has a nationwide audience. If the news services won’t tell the true
story because of fear of editorial or political bias, it is high
time newspapers themselves got together. "
Replying to this, Editor & Publisher says:
"Conceding that there is a good bit of superficial cover¬
age of news from Washington, we don’t believe that radio is giving
its audience more than readers get from their newspapers. In the
case of tne Henderson resignation, cited as a 'horrible example* by
Mr. Marshall, there was no failure on the part of the newspapers
that we read to report the true facts. Mr. Henderson made no secret
of the reason for his departure from OPA, and his statements were
equally available to press and radio, and were equally used by both.
"Mr. Marshall's idea that a new organization be formed for
the purpose of collecting and distributing purely national news
seems to us an unnecessary diversion of man-power and brains from a
pool which is already depleted by war. The three big press services
are all represented at every point where news of national interest
might develop, and if the Cedar Rapids Gazette or any other news¬
paper, large or small, turns up a story of more than local Interest,
the chances are ten to one that that fact will get on the wires of
at least one of the services.
"Certain it is that newspapers have much more to their
credit during the past year than the organization of a successful
drive for scrap. They have not lagged behind radio in the exposi¬
tion of important news, except for the inevitable fact that radio
has been able to beat them to the street with the initial news of
almost every important story. In our opinion, that fact has given
radio no particular advantage in the public's mind. It has not
weakened the newspaper as the major medium of public Information.
It has not hit at the foundations of the Constitutional guarantee
of press freedom. "
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SENATOR CLARK REINTRODUCES PETRILLO BILL
On the second day of the new Congress, Senator D. Worth
Clark, of Idaho, reintroduced his bill to restrict the powers of
James C. Petrillo, President of the American Federation of Musicians.
The bill would make illegal any orders of Mr. Petrillo to ban the
production of records or electrical transcriptions. It would
endeavor to bring the labor leader within the scope of the anti¬
trust laws and subject to possible injunctions preventing the enfor¬
cement of the prohibition against musicians playing for recorded
music.
Senator Clark said that Petrillo had advised him that he
would appear at the hearings of the Senate Interstate Commerce Com¬
mittee which will begin next Tuesday, January 12th. Furthermore
Senator Clark declared that if there was not speedy action in the
Senate, he would go directly to President Roosevelt on it.
"If we can’t get anywhere with this bill, which I plan to
re-offer In the new Congress, then I'll appeal directly to the
President”, Senator Clark said*
"He has authority to take over plants where production has
been halted by strikes, I am sure he has war-time power to curb the
power of Petrillo to deny popular music to millions of Americans,
including troops at home and abroad.
"So far as I know, petrillo has not offered any concrete
proposal as a compromise to either the broadcasting stations, the
record and transcription manufacturers or others involved", Senator
Clark added,
"This matter goes far beyond any labor dispute* Elmer
Davis, Director of the Office of War Information, told our committee
recently that a continuance of the ban would force the closing of
many small radio stations essential to our wartime communications.
"He also said, and he spoke for the War and Navy Depart¬
ments, that the withdrawal of popular music from the radio stations
and 5 juke boxes' would seriously endanger wartime morale on the home
front as well as that of our troops on the battle front.
"Quite a few stations have already closed or sold out for
nominal sums. "
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Electric storage battery production quote for 1943, as
announced by the War Production Board, is established at 100$ of
number sold during 1941, under Order L-180 as amended January 5,1943.
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CONGRESSMAN COX AGAIN MOVES TO INVESTIGATE FCC
Representative E« Ee Cox ( D. ) , of Georgia, again sharpened
his axe for the Federal Communications Commission by announcing
that he would reintroduce his resolution to probe FCC activities.
The Cox resolution reads:
’’Resolved, That there is hereby created a select committee
to be composed of five Members of the House to be appointed by
the Speaker, one of whom he shall designate as chairman. Any
vacancy occurring in the membership of the committee shall be
filled in the same manner in which the original appointment was
made0
’’The committee is authorized and directed to conduct a
study and investigation of the organization, personnel, and
activities of the Federal Communications Commission with a view
to determining whether or not such Commission in Its organiza¬
tion, in the selection of personnel, and in the conduct of Its
activities, has been, and is, acting in accordance with law and
the public interest.
’’The committee shall report to the House (or to the Clerk
of the House if the House is not in session) at the earliest
practicable date during the present Congress the results of its
investigation, together with such recommendations as it deems
desirable.
’’For the purposes of tnis resolution the committee is
authorized to sit and act during the present Congress at such
times and places within the United States, whether or not the
House is sitting, has recessed, or has adjourned, to hold such
hearings, to require the attendance of such witnesses and the
production of such books, papers, and documents, and to take
such testimony, as it deems necessary, Subpenas may be Issued
under the signature of the Chairman of the committee or any
member designated by him, and may be served by any person desig¬
nated by such chairman or member. ”
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NBC AND U. OF C. SPONSOR WEST COAST RADIO INSTITUTE
A radio Institute sponsored jointly by the National Broad¬
casting Company and the University of California at Los Angeles was
announced by Sidney N. Strotz, NBC Vice-President for the Western
Division.
Five six-week courses will be offered. They are: Writing,
acting, announcing, production-direction and public service programs.
Enrollment in the institute, to be conducted between June 28
and August 21, will be limited to 100 students.
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KNOWLSON EXIT SAID TO FORESHADOW MORE WPB BLOW-UPS
Another loud explosion following the resignation of James
S. Knowlson, Vice-Chairman of the War Production Board, President of
the Stewart- Warner Comoany of Chicago , and a former President of the
Radio Manufacturers' Association, was when a third Chicagoan, Lessing
Ro senwald, of Chicago, Director of WPB9 s conservation division,
decided to quit while the going was good. The first of the Chicago
crowd to leave under his own steam was Merrill "Babe” Meigs, Hearst
executive, who was Chief of tne Aircraft Division, Since Don Nelson
is from Chicago, and since the other Chicago gentlemen, including
his former boss Mr. Rosenwald, have found the road too hard to travel,
the impression is that the next man to throw up the soonge may be
Nelson himself.
If so, Mr. Nelson, according to the present dope, would
be replaced by Charles E. Wilson who voluntarily gave up his big-
time salary as president of the General Electric Company to take a
$10,000 salary with the WPB. Ferdinand Eberstadt, former Wall
Street Investment banker, is also mentioned.
At the moment Messrs. Wilson and Eberstadt seem to be run¬
ning the show though supposedly under the direction of Mr. Nelson,
wno it is said is allowing the situation to get away from him. This,
it is explained, has not made Mr. Nelson feel any too secure in his
own position though he came in with a big ballyhoo and presidential
blessings the like of which Washington hardly ever heard but In view
of the fishy eye of the new Congress the blessings are believed to
be worth considerably less now than then.
Mr. Knowlson8 s departure was waid by associates to be a
completely amicable one, but he was represented as feeling that the
realignment of WPB's top command had relieved him of high policy¬
making authority and that he could be more useful to the war effort
in his own company. Mr. Knowlson felt his power flowing away from
him and decided to get out.
Mr. Wilson, who at the moment seems to be the Administra¬
tion5 s "fair haired boy 15 now has suoreme control over scheduling the
production programs of the armed service - aircraft, radio equioraent
and escort vessels. Of this one writer says:
"Eyes of the escort vessel are a new and secret instrument
known as radar. Wilson has charge of this, too. But he won9 1 talk
about it, more than to say that It helos convoys to see what the eye
cannot see, and it will revolutionize transports! ion, on the sea and
in the air, after the war.
"Behind his rimless glasses, Wilson keeps a perfect focus
on nis main objective - to build planes, escort vessels, and radio
equipment faster than they have ever been built before in the United
States. /aid incidentally, the second objective is to prove to the
brass hats that the job can be done by American industry, under
civilian leadership. "
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The Inference of the last statement evidently being that
the Job has not been done satisfactorily under the Nelson leader¬
ship. So keep your ear to the ground for more WPB blaw-ups.
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IT IS MAJOR GILLINGHAM NOW
George 0. Gillingham, former press representative of the
Federal Communications Commission, is now a Major. Mr. Gillingham
is attached to the office of the Chief of the Chemical Warfare
Service and is editor of the News Letter of the service.
Mr. Gillingham was formerly associated with the Newark
(N.J. ) Star-Eagle, Newark Sunday Call and covered North Jersey for
three Philadelphia dailies, i.e., North American, Press, and Even¬
ing Bulletin, He also did feature writing for the New York Sunday
World and has had varied experience in magazine work, having con¬
tributed articles to Saturday Evening Post, Current History, Bookman,
New Yorker, Esquire, etc. At one time Mr. Gillingham was managing
editor of the Pathfinder magazine and at the same time edited a
department in Golden Book.
Mr. Gillingham was in the military service from 1918 to
1920 and for a time commanded Company K of the 1st Gas Regiment.
He is a member of the National Press Club and Past Commander of the
National Press Club Post of the American Legion.
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CLAIMS RADIO DIDN'T DO THE JOB IN ADLESS N.Y.
Says the Chicago Daily News:
"Without newspapers for the 72 hours prior to 1 A. M.
Wednesday, Dec. 17, New Yorkers didn’t buy as usual - which anyone
should have known, anyhow. But a strike of the deliverymen gave
another expensive laboratory test of the necessity of newspaper
advertising to retail trade. Chicago had the classic test of that
sort in a stereotypers' strike in 1898, which came right at the
most exciting period of the Spanish- American War.
"The 1898 demonstration was scientifically conclusive as
to the effects upon business, although advertising was far less
developed 44 years ago.
"But no doubt many curious souls have longed for a test of
that kind in the age of radio. Well, they got it this month. It
cost everybody plenty. Radio didn't do the job. Wartime prosperity
didn't do it, The enviable and deserved renurtations of famous stores
didn't do it. The slump came, as every newspaperman knew It would
come, and New York's Christmas was curtailed."
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U.S* SOLDIERS IN NEWFOUNDLAND STAGE RADIO SERIES
American soldiers of the Newfoundland Base Command have
been putting on a successful radio show, '’Prepare For Action”, for
nearly three months. Regular listeners have included not only mili¬
tary personnel of the United Nations and Newfoundlanders, but
American civilians from as far as the raid-West in the United States,
the War Department has been informed.
This entertainment is presented every Tuesday night for
thirty minutes over the principal St. John* s station by the soldiers
themselves in conjunction with the local United Service Organization.
The entertainers are usually soldiers, with occasional visiting
professional guest stars such as Joan Blondell and the singing
Hylton Sisters.
The radio show is of the variety type with the band of an
old American Infantry regiment oroviding the music background each
week. A studio audience of 600 is admitted by ticket to the USO
auditorium where the broadcasts emanate.
As in the big-time New York radio studios, signs such as
“Applause” and "Silence” are used to direct the audience, and each
performance starts with a pre-broa dcast talk.
Despite the fact that, due to atmospheric conditions,
reception of any radio program from Newfoundland is seldom of the
best, many reports have come in from American relatives back home
wno have listened in to their husbands, brothers, sons and friends.
The carefully timed program is short waved on the 49 meter band at
?:3Q, Eastern War Time, on Tuesday nights.
XXXXXXXX
ASKS WHY MOST RADIO SPEAKERS ARE NOT NATURAL
Henry McLimore, columnist, writes in the Washington Post:
”A radio personality who talks over the air as he does at
home. There is no rule against talking naturally, but no one does
it. Kaltenborn clips and sighs. Swing is so natural he isn’t.
Elmer Davis is the same. Lowell Thomas gives the imoression that
he Is broadcasting from the back of Lawrence of Arabia, which would
be all right if his listeners didn’t know that he wasn't doing any¬
thing of the wort.
"Even President Roosevelt isn’t natural. I have never
talked to the President ~ as a matter of fact, I have never talked
to any President - but Mr. Roosevelt never would have been elected
had he talked in conversation as he does over the air. If he had
given those ward, county and State leaders that beautiful cross
between Groton and Albany, he would still be the Assistant Secretary
o f the Navy. ”
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TELEGRAPH MERGER BILL REINTRODUCED
The bill authorizing the merger of the Western Union and
the Postal Telegraph was reintroduced by Representative Bulwinkle
the first day of the new Congress. It is known as H, R. 499.
A bill authorizing such a merger went through the Senate
last session and was approved by the House Interstate Commerce Com¬
mittee, but did not get to a vote on the floor.
Not only would the domestic companies be permitted to
merge, but International telegraph carriers also would be allowed to
consolidate after divesting themselves of any domestic telegraph
business.
For a period of four years after approval of any merger,
any employee of the merged company who might lose his Job because of
the consolidation would have a preferential hiring and emoloyraent
status with the consolidated company*
XXXXXXXX
DO YOU KNOW THIS RADIO GENTLEMAN ?
So that outsiders could get an idea of some of the freaks
that are in the government service, the Washington Post has been
running a series contributed by private secretaries, stenographers
and others. An article signed "Cynara" referring to a radio execu¬
tive follows:
H Some times a dud goes off unexpectedly, and when the one
I was working for went off to Chicago, it gave me a chance to look
for another assignment.
"The personnel manager was cooperative. He had Just the
man for me - one of that bizarre but gallant army the Government is
hiring from Hollywood these days (writers, artists, poets; the Walt
Disney s and Melvin Douglases). this man, the manager informed me,
was in charge of the organization's radio publicity, was dissatis¬
fied with the girl he had, and would be glad to see me.
"His office was situated in another building, and when he
dropped in to see the personnel manager the next day, he called on
me in the boss’ office.
"Something small and dark, so thin he was practically five-
by nothing, took a running leap into the room. He had beetling brows
that Joined across the nose bridge over piercing black eyes. He was
not merely dynamic - he was the quintessence of human energy, he was
Ambition personified. Ego going places; and touting it to the world
in a harsh staccato.
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"Sometimes he sat on the edge of the desk and looked down
at me, sometimes he half clambered up the window sill, or bounded
across the room and tore nervously at the leaves of the ivy plant.
And all the while his slightly mad eyes stared at me as if trying to
undress my mind.
">I»m a producer’, he opened fire. 'I’m putting on a radio
show to help the war effort, and I’m a busy man. ""here'!! be a lot
of work on this Job, hard work, and late hours, every night maybe
1 til 9, and sometimes Sundays. Now what I want is a secretary who
likes show business, one who takes a genuine interest; in fact, she
has to love it and it can’t be feigned.’
"'How do you handle people?1 he continued to shoot at me,
’how do you work under pressure? Can you turn out a lot of work?
Do you know how to punctuate?’
"Then suddenly he leaped from the branches of the plant to
tne window sill and almost shouted. ’Now here’s a very Important
matter - personality. The girl who works for me has to adjust her¬
self to my personality (he said the word "adjust" in italics); my
secretary has to work for me. I’m not going to work for my secre¬
tary. I don’t want a girl to tell me what to do or how to run my
office. I’ll adjust my personality where I have to. I'll adjust
my personality to Errol Flynn or Fonald Colman or Katharine Cornell;
where I have to, yes, but not to my secretary. ’
"’And that reminds me’, he was saying, ’how is your tele¬
phone voice? You may have to talk to some important peoole; you may
have to talk to Clif Faidlman or Orson Welles. ' My polite murmurs
were stilled. I was by then practically wordless.
"’I'd like a day to think it over', I said evenly. 'I’ll
speak to the manager in the morning.' 'I’ll speak to the manager
myself', he threw back significantly; and of course he did, on the
way out. You have guessed it - he told the manager wrathfully that
he didn't like my personality."
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The front cover of "London Calling", carry ingBBC urograms
for the week of January 10, shows two photographs not heretofore seen
in this country taken by R. A. F. attacking bombers showing the bombing
of the Philips Radio factory at Eindhoven, Netherlands. The photos
bear this caption:
"It took Just four minutes for a hundred R. A. F. light
bombers to swoop in daylight on the important Philips radio valve
works at Eindhoven on Sunday, December 6. These remarkable pictures
were taken during that fearsome four minutes when a plant so vital
to Hitler was almost completely destroyed. It was revealed later
that among the bombers taking part were Lockheed-Vega Venturas -
a plane, now being mass-produced in the U. S. , wnich is faster and
possesses greater endurance than the Lockheed Hudson, "
X X X X X X X
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NBC OFFICIALS ESCORT SONG- CONTEST WINNER TO CAPITAL
NBC's President Niles Trammell, Vice-Presidents Frank E.
Mullen, Clarence L. Menser, and several other executives, will
accompany Miss Eugenia Demetriou, of Maspeth, L. I., winner of NBC's
Pan American Holiday contest, to Washington, D. C. , to attend the
program's special broadcast on Saturday, January 9, at 1:00 P.M. ,
EWT. The entire cast of "Pan American Holiday" and the orchestra
will also be present at the Mayflower Hotel for the event.
Miss Demetriou emerged victorious from a group of four semi¬
finalists, all of wnose voices, specially recorded, were listened to
by Vice-President and Mrs. Henry Ae Wallace, Ambassador and Madame
Carlos Martins, of Brazil, and Ambassador and Senora Castillo Najero,
of Mexico. These officials and other members of the Washington
diplomatic corps, are expected to be present at the broadcast, and
at the luncheon following the broadcast.
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ODD REQUESTS POUR INTO NEW WLW MAIL DEPARTMENT
One of the busiest offices In "Crosley Square", WLW-WAAI's
Cincinnati home, Is that of the recently ooened Audience Mall Depart¬
ment, under the direction of Elsa G. Waterman. Begun as a service
to listeners, it has given help to almost 300 persons in its first
month of operation.
Across Miss Waterman's desk every day pass requests for
everything from copies of poems to inspire the lonely soldier boy¬
friend to letters asking aid in locating a lost person or advice as
to whether or not to buy a business.
"And not one of the dozens of letters that arrive each day
is left unanswered", says the WLW Radio News. "The listener's prob¬
lem may require hours of search, numberless telephone calls, or half
a dozen letters, but the satisfaction in giving help is well worth
all the effort. "
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AMERICAN INDUSTRY CONTRIBUTES WAR RADIO SINEWS
Just as advertising revenue finances largely the editorial
add reportial services of our free daily press, and of our magazines,
so American industry contributes the sinews of war to the steady for¬
ward march of the 924 broadcasting stations against the common
enemies of American freedom, Paul Hollister, Vice President of the
Columbia Broadcasting System, told the New York Council of the Amer¬
ican Association of Advertising Agencies recently,
Mr. Hollister adding that this is a good time to recall
that one of the American freedoms the enemy aims to abolish is priv¬
ate enterprise, or "the simple right to amount to something", said;
"The major wartime contribution of advertising is this:
the 924 radio stations In the U. S.A. receive the revenue which en¬
ables them to operate from a single major source: advertising monies
paid to them by manufacturers, merchants*, and vendors of services.
This gross revenue as you know is the sine qua non, the life-blood,
of the broadcasting system in our nation; it pays the costs not only
of the actual offering of goods and services, but it makes possible
likewise the massive total of sustaining, or non- commercial programs -
what the layman calls the } editorial matter* broadcast. H
Mr. Hollister1 s speech has now been reorinted in pamphlet
form "U. S. Radio Goes to War", the subtitle of which ^ s : "What part
has radio advertising played in the U. S. war effort?
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NBC TAKES 11 TOP PLACES IN HOOPER SURVEY
NBC programs maintained their pre-eminent position in
broadcast entertainment in the survey conducted during the third
week of December by C. B. Hooper, Inc. , according to figures released
which show that NBC programs, in that period, dominated the kilo¬
cycles in this Impressive manner: Of the top ranking features,
NBC had - 11 out of the first 11; 18 out of the first 25; 20 out of
the first 30, and 32 out of the first 50,
The 11 outstanding shows in the order of their survey rat¬
ings are:
1 - Edgar Bergen (Chase & Sanborn)
2 - Bob Hope (pepsodent)
3 - Fibber McGee & Molly (Johnson’s Wax)
4 - Jack Benny (General Foods)
5 - Aldrich Family (General Foods)
6 - Frank Morgan- Fanny Brice (General Foods)
7 - Bandwagon (Fitch Co.)
8 - Rudy Vallee (Sealtest)
9 - Music Hall (Kraft Cheese)
10 - Kay Kyser (American Tobacco)
11 - Eddie Cantor (Bristol-Myers)
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WASHINGTON, D. C. !
2400 CALIFORNIA STREET
INDEX TO ISSUE OF JANUARY 12, 1943
"What Do You Want?" Wheeler Bluntly Asks Petrillo . 1
Air Profanity Increase, Complaints Allege . 2
Petrillo Court Call Comes On Eve Of Senate Hearing . 3
Ira L. Grimshaw, NBC Assistant General Counsel, Dies . 4
Gerald Gross Is Now A "^wo And A Half Striper . . . 5
V-P Wallace Sees U. S. Girl Receive NBC Music Award . 5
Newspapers Harder Hit By War Than Radio Stations..
G. E. Expert Notes Great Radio Production Expansion
Asks Why Jap Broadcasts If Nobody Can Listen? . 8
Trade Notds . 9
Frank Mullen Goes Another Step Up The Ladder . 10
Leaders In Attack On Pnilips Radio Plant Decorated . 10
Frank Butler, Radio Old Timer, Now In Editorial Harness . 11
New Radiothermics Field Speeds Industrial Processes . 11
No. 1494
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January 12, 1943
"WHAT DO YOU WANT?” WHEELER BLUNTLY ASKS PETRILLO
"What do you want?” "Who do you want It from?” "What is
your solution of this music question?” were three questions which
Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana repeatedly asked James C.
Petrillo, President of the American Federation of Music when the
Chicago labor leader but, during the first session of the Senate hear¬
ing today (Tuesday) at lease did not receive a clear answer. Roughly
Mr, Petrillo1 s reply was that he desired to put more live talent into
the 200 broadcasting stations of the country that were now using ”80
to 100$” recordings. Senator Wheeler said there should be some way
of solving the music problem so the public wouldn’t suffer, so the
industry would not be put out of business, and so the union could
still survive. Mr. Wheeler intimated that if this could not be
found because of the ’’growing resentment of the public against the
attitude of certain labor leaders” these leaders might topple and
federal legislation might result.
Senators present at the ouenlng of the probe in addition
to Mr. Wheeler were Clark of Idaho, Chairman of the Sub-commi ttee ,
Johnson of Colorado, Tobey, of New Hampshire, White of Maine, Tunnel
of Delaware, McFarland of Arizona, Andrews, and Stewart of Tennessee.
Although there was a good attendance at the first session, the turn¬
out was smaller than had been expected and only comfortably filled
the large Senate caucus room.
Mr. Petrillo in his opening statement said:
"My name is James C. Petrillo. I am President of the
American Federation of Musicians, an affiliate of the American Feder¬
ation of Labor, I was elected to the office of President in June,
1940* I am pleased to respond to your invitation to appear before
this Senate Committee and give you such help as I can.
"Let me say at the outset that in order for the Committee
to be properly and fully informed on the subject of the Resolution,
it is necessary to make a full investigation of the industry. Only
by such investigation can the tremendous control of the entire music
industry, including record making, radio broadcasting and the like
be shown to be in the hands of a few giant corporations who have
become powerful and orosperous on the original work, and at the
exoense of, the live musician. The American Federation of Musicians
respectfully requests this Committee to look into the charges fre¬
quently made, and which we believe to be true, of monoooly, inter¬
locking arrangements and large profits.
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’’This information can only be obtained by a thorough inquiry
by this Committee into the inner workings of the industry and a com¬
plete examination and cross-examination of the higher officials
managing the industry, as well as a full and complete examination
of all records, data and information gathered by the VCC.
’’Much has been written and said about this controversy by
those whose interests are opposed to the interests of the American
Federation of Musicians and its members. What has been said has not
been for the purpose of enlightening the oublic, but for the purpose
of abusing and insulting the American Federation of Musicians and
its officers, on the theory that !if you cannot answer a person’s
arguments, you can still call him dirty names. ’
The worst offender in this regard has been the National
Association of Broadcasters and some of its officials. The American
federation of Musicians has not adooted similar methods by way of
defense. I hardly think that the members of this Committee can be
unaware of the fact that the National Association of Broadcasters
has engaged in an expensive publicity campaign composed of nothing
but false issues and personal abuse.
’’Insofar as the American Federation of Musicians is concern¬
ed, we welcome an investigation, providing It is full and complete and
will investigate the entire industry in all its operations. Unless
this is done, the Committee cannot obtain a thorough understanding
of the problem.
”X believe that I can be of most service to this Committee
by dealing with the practical side of the question, and I think that
tnis can best be done by answering such questions you may desire to
put to me, I shall try to answer such questions to the best of my
ability. Insofar as legal and economic information is concerned,
our Counsel, Judge Padway, will present a full statement on these
matters. ”
/V XXXXXXXX
AIR PROFANITY INCREASE, COMPLAINTS ALLEGE
It was said at the Federal Communica tions Commission that
more than the ordinary number of complaints of vulgarity and profan¬
ity over the air had been received. What action the Commission will
take was not indicated.
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PETRILLO COURT CALL COMES ON EVE OF SENATE HEARING
Just as James C. PetriXlo, President of the American fed¬
eration of Musicians was making first preparations for his appear¬
ance before the Senate investigating committee in Washington today
(Tuesday), Federal Judge John P. Barnes in Chicago ordered him to
show cause why a preliminary injunction should not be issued re¬
straining him and his Musicians* Union from further enforcement of
tneir ban on making records for public purposes*
President Petrillo and eight other officers of the Ameri¬
can Federation of Musicians (AFL) were asked to appear in court
in Cnicago January 18,
Judge Barnes dismissed the Government's original petition
for an injunction against Petrillo and the others last October 12
on grounds that the matter essentially was a labor dispute.
But last December 24, the Government filed an amended
petition designed to circumvent an adverse ruling on the labor angle.
The revised suit charged that the defendants conspired to put out of
business independent radio stations located in areas where union
musicians were not available and where no labor disputes existed,
Petrillo' s order forbade members of the union from making
recordings and transcrintions for the radio and Juke boxes, Daniel
B. Britt, Assistant to the United States Attorney General, obtained
the show cause order. He said Assistant Attorney General Thurman
Arnold would argue the Government5 s side of the case at the January
18 session.
Captioning it 55 A Happy Situation", the Saturday Evening
Post has an editorial about Mr. Petrillo which reads'
"It’s old stuff by this time, but we are still fascinated
by James Caesar Petrillo5 s magnarainity In dealing with the Boston
Symphony Orchestra, which, in the protective custody of the American
Federation of Musicians, is now off Mr. Petrillo5 s black list. As
Caesar explained when the articles of capitulation were signed, the
agreement ’will permit the Boston Symphony to make records - when
the record dispute is over - go on the radio and do the things that
other orchestras are able to do that are members of the federation. 5
Mr. Petrillo then added: 5 A very happy situation, a great orchestra,
a great conductor. '
15 As the cat might have remarked, with the canary inside
her, ’Peace, it’s wonderful* 5 What Bacn, Beetnoven or the American
music lover thinks of the fact that a great orchestra with a
conductor must get right with Petrillo before it can be heard
side its own concert hall is for the sounder-outers of public
opinion to discover. 55
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1/12/45
IRA L GRIMSHAW, NBC ASSISTANT GENERAL COUNSEL* DIES
Ira L® Grimshaw of 1 Pinecrest Road* Scarsdale, New York*
passed away suddenly at his home on January 1* 1945® For the past
ten years he had been associated with the National Broadcasting
Company as Assistant General Counsel* located in the New York offices
of the Company, with A® L. Ashby, Vice President and General Counsels
Mr® Grimshaw was born May 51, 1887 in Denver, Colorado®
From there, at an early age he moved with his family to San Francisco,
California® Later, he moved while still in his teens with his family
to Santa Fe, New Mexico where his father was an official of the
Santa Fe Railroad®
Mr® Grimshaw was a graduate of the University of Michigan
with degrees of A®B® and L»L®B® For a number of years after gradua¬
tion he practiced law in New Mexico and later acted as Clerk for the
Supreme Court of New Mexico® When he came East he was associated
with Judge Stephen Davis as Assistant Counsel for the National
Electric Light Association, For three years he was also assistant
to Judge Davis when Judge Davis had charge of radio licenses, when
the same were administered by the Department of Commerce of the
United States under former President Hoover, who was then Secretary
of Commerce® Following his work in the Department of Commerce, he
was associated in the general practice of law with Judge Davis in
New York® This association continued until the death of Judge Davis®
Following Judge Davis9 death, he became a member of the legal staff
of the National Broadcasting Company®
During the last Warld War, Mr® Grimshaw held the commission
of a Major in the United States Army®
Mr® Grimshaw is survived by his wife, Mrs® Beatrice Grim¬
shaw, and his two sons, Robert and Thomas, who at present are stud¬
ents at the University of Michigan®
The services were held at Scarsdale, New York, on Sunday,
January 5rd, at 5s 50 P®M« and in part were conducted by the Masonic
Lodge of which Mr® Grimshaw was a high ranking member®
A Westerner in training and spirit, he was direct in all
approaches to problems® He greatly endeared himself to his associ¬
ates in NBC during his years there not only because of his own
personality but because of his helpfulness and loyalty® His associ¬
ates will cherish the inestimable privilege of emulating his example
and proving themselves worthy to have had his friendship and esteem®
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1/12/43
GERALD GROSS IS NOW A TWO AND A HALF STRIPER
Gerald C. Gross, Assistant Chief Engineer in charge of the
Common Carrier Division since December, 1941, has received a leave
of absence for the duration of the war from the Federal Communica¬
tions Commission to become a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy. He
has held a commission in the Naval Reserve since 1932,
Mr. Gross participated in the formation of the Engineer¬
ing Division of the Federal Radio Commission in 1928. Since the
formation of the FCC, he has headed both the International and Broad¬
cast Divisions and represented the Government in twenty-one interna¬
tional conferences on communications.
Born in New York City in 1903, Mr. Gross obtained his
elementary schooling in France, and received a B. S. degree from
Haverford College, Haverford, Pa. in 1926. At Haverford he was
instrumental in setting up WABQ, one of the first college broadcast¬
ing stations in the country. He served as a radio and communica¬
tions officer in the American Merchant Marine and worked for the
United States Bureau of Standards where he was engaged in research
on plane radio and on the radio beacon. Later he was placed
charge of the Bureau’s standard frequency transmissions.
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V-P WALLACE SEES U.S, GIRL RECEIVE NBC MUSIC AWARD
In the presence of Vice-President Wallace, Ambassador
Ernesto Jaen Guardia of Panama, Ambassador Luis Fernando Guachalla
of Bolivia, Niles Trammell, President of the National Broadcasting
Company and Frank E. Mullen, Vice-President and General Manager,
Eugenia Demetriou, of Maspeth, L. I., last Saturday was awarded a
trip to Mexico as winner of the NBC’s ’’Spanish Through Music” con-
te st.
The occasion was the final of a series of network programs
entitled ”Pan American Holiday”, originally suggested by Mr. Wallace
as a means of fostering better relations among the Americas.
The Vice President praised N3C for its series, explaining
now the original idea came from an experiment when he and some
Mexican friends had used phonograph records of Spanish songs to
nelp learn the language.
The radio series, which combined Latin .American music,
with a dramatic story, ”ha.s been of real help in making people in
the United States want to know about our good neighbors to the
south”, Mr. Wallace said.
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"Really to learn the language of another people widens
your outlook and feelings in so many ways as really to equip you
with another soul, I hope that we of the United States become so
proficient in Spanish that we shall have a Latin soul as well as a
North American soul and that the Latin Americans become so profic¬
ient in English that they can understand us, too. "
Don Ernesto Jaen Guardi a, Ambassador of Panama, stressed
the cooperation now existing between the United States and his
country, and oredicted that "victory for the democracies is defin¬
itely in sight". To safeguard the future, he recommended establish¬
ment of a "permanent council of democratic nations. ”
Don Luis Fernando Guachalla, Bolivian Ambassador, praised
the radio series as "a remarkable cultural program".
Mr. Trammell, of NBC, said that more than 70,000 persons
had requested conies of the Latin American songs which had been
taught on the "Pan American Holiday" program.
Miss Demetriou, 18-year-old American-born daughter of
Creek and Italian parents, is an employee of the Fairchild Aviation
Corp. , and will go with her mother to Mexico next month.
Judges in the contest included the Vice President and Mrs.
Wallace, the Brazilian Ambassador, and Madame Martins and the
Mexican Ambassador and Senora de Castillo Najera.
X X X X X X X
NEWSPAPERS HARDER HIT BY WAR THAN RADIO STATIONS
Up to now there has been a much larger war casualty list
among the smaller newspapers than the smaller broadcasting stations,
Mounting costs of operation, including labor and materials
decreasing advertising revenues, many publications being hard hit by
the drastic curtailment in automotive cony, which in nearly every
instance meant the difference between profit and loss; a materials
and manpower shortage, and an uncertain future, forced 63 dally
newsoapers from coast-to-coast to susoend oubllcation during 1942.
Not all of these, however, have lost their Identities -
many of which were built at much cost of money, time and effort.
Of the 63 dailies which ceased ooeratlons from January 1,
1942, up until the first of this year, according to an Editor &
Publisher survey, 25 went on a weekly or semi-weekly basis. Nine¬
teen of these now appear as weeklies, the remainder as semi-weeklies
The largest number, 34, announced they were suspending
operations permanently; four announced they were closing their doors
"for the duration".
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Of the 63 suspensions, 11 were merged with stronger com¬
petition and then suspended. In some cases, however, their names
were carried on by the succeeding Dublieation in one form or another.
The 1942 daily newspaper fatalities list is the largest
for any single year since the last war. The dislocation of consume
markets, materials and manpower brought about by the nation* s effor
in girding for total war was too much for the 63 publications to
overcome.
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EXPERT NOTES GREAT RADIO PRODUCTION EXPANSION
The war program stopped the design of new circuits and
chassis of home radio receivers as engineering talent was trans¬
ferred from commercial to military equipment, but in the production
of radio transmitting and receiving equipment there was unprecedent¬
ed expansion.
The line of commercial FM broadcast transmitters was com¬
pleted during the year, including the 50-kw amplifier.
Deliveries of emergency-type equipments to customary out¬
lets such as police departments, oublic utilities, etc. , were
greatly curtailed by the war, but such equioments were adopted for
military applications. For police, utility and factory installa¬
tions, equipments were designed with little of such strategic mater¬
ials as brass and aluminum,
A water-cooled transmitting tube for use in wlde-band
television amplifiers was designed to incorporate such features as
introverted anode and short lead lengths with multiple terminal
mount connections, reducing lead Inductance and giving stable and
efficient performance at high frequencies,
A small, light-weight, gas- filled metal thyratron incor¬
porating many of the features of small metal radio receiving tubes
was developed particularly for applications where space and weight
are important factors,
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A report of the progress made in our first year of the
conflict - a 21-page booklet "War Production in 1942" - has Just
been issued by the War Production Board,
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ASKS WHY JAP BROADCASTS IF NOBODY CAN LISTEN?
Rapping our short-wave broadcasts to Japan, Jack Gould
writes in the New York Times:
"A favorite topic for authorities on propaganda, whose
numbers increase hourly with each new controversial issue connected
with the war, is the subject of American broadcasts to Japan.
Fanciful yarns, receiving wide circulation, have been spun on how
we were ’telling* the Japanese the democratic side of the story,
and at the same time there have been doubts as to whether we could
be heard - doubs, incidentally, which the OWI has been the first to
recognize.
"To hand this morning are some American-approved reports
on the situation, which apparently had been overlooked, in the pub¬
lic discussion at least. They were Issued over a period of years
by the Department of Commerce and were prepared by our commercial
and trade commissioners in Tokyo.
"The reports show that from 1926 to the start of the war,
except for a brief interval in 1930, no short-wave receivers neces¬
sary for the reception of the United States had been allowed to be
sold in Japan. A handful of government officials and foreign diplo¬
mats were the only owners. Further, some 68 percent of the stand¬
ard receivers in Japan in 1940, for instance, were of four tubes or
less, and for years the Japanese Government had deliberately dis¬
tributed transmitters, so more powerful receivers were not needed.
"In the absence of any possible general audience for our
short-wave broadcasts, it might be assumed that there would be a few
listeners among Japanese amateur radio operators, who in good faith
had been admitted to the international family of followers of the
fascinating hobby. However, the report two years ago of Carl H.
Boehringer, then Assistant United States Trade Commissioner in Tokyo,
reveals that the Japanese had long since debased the pursuit to
their own ends.
"’Amateurs in Japan are mainly scholars and others carrying
on research work in collaboration with the Department of Communica¬
tions and the Japanese Broadcasting Corporation’, Mr. Boehringer
wrote. ’A select few are licensed to carry on short-wave experiments,
but the licenses for this purpose are granted only to those whose
political views are entirely in accord with the existing order. 5
"The OWI has been asked - there already have been a few
rumblings in Congress on the matter - why continue to broadcast to
Japan, with the necessarily large expenditure, if our own government's
reports show nobody can listen? The OWI answer seems both reason¬
able and plausible.
"If nothing else, a staff of propagandists must be trained
against the inevitable day when our troops approach Tokyo, when we
will be heard over standard wave-length stations in Japan’ s front
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yard. Too, the psychological effect of letting the enemy know that
we are always there, disputing all their lying pap, is an essential
part of an all-out war. "
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TRADE NOTES
NBC's National Spot Sales Division had the best year in
its history in 1942, James V. McConnell, Manager of the Division,
announced.
"National Spot Sales", Mr. McConnell said, "had an In¬
crease of more than 12$ over 1941. Since January 1 of this year,
business has continued to be well ahead of the same period in 1942.
New accounts and renewals have been reported by all 11 stations
represented by NBC National Spot Sales. "
President Roosevelt's annual message to Congress January 7
was heard by a radio audience of 14,290,200 adult listeners, accord¬
ing to a Hoooer survey and released by the Columbia Broadcasting
System. The Hooper rating for the address was 27.7 as against
December 8, 1941, when it was 59.6.
There were 702,132 licensed radio receiving sets in
Switzerland at the end of July, 1942, say Swiss press reports.
This is an increase of 21,817 sets in the first 7 months of 1942.
Miss Patricia (Pat) Kelley has Joined the staff of George
Crandall in the CBS Publicity Department, in New York City.
The Washington Post prints the following letter from
William McMillan, a reader:
"Why not cut all newspaper, radio, billboard and promo¬
tional advertising by manufacturers of tobacco and smoking products
and of all alcoholic beverages in half?
"The net cost of, say - several cents on a pack of cigar¬
ettes or a pint of whisky. In all cases the saving could be put
into a special tax.
"A tremendous amount of paper products, printing materials
and radio equipment would be saved for the war effort.
"Thousands of people - many technicians - would be releas¬
ed for useful work.
"The savings thus available for taxes would be a basis
of adjustment of the victory tax and such oppressive levies. "
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FRANK MULLEN GOES ANOTHER STEP UP THE LADDER
Frank E. Mullen, Vice-President and General Manager of the
National Broadcasting Co, , was elected a Director of the company, at
a meeting of the Board of Directors, held in New York last week.
In announcing Mr. Mullen^s election, Niles Trammell, NBC
President said:
“Mr. Mullen’ s election to the NBC directorate is a recog¬
nition of his fine service to broadcasting and to his many contri¬
butions to the network’s part in the war effort. In his position as
NBC’s General Manager, his ability as an organizer and executive has
contributed substantially to the progress of the network. w
Mr. Mullen, the originator of the famous !fFarm and Home
Hour”, has participated in the development of radio since 1923,
wnen he organized the first broadcast service for farmers. He Joined
NBC in 1926 and for 8 years, served as its Director of Agriculture
with headquarters in Chicago. In 1934, he was transferred to New
York City as Manager of the RCA Department of Information. Five
years later, he was elected Vice-President of the Radio Corporation
of America. In 1940, Mr. Mullen was elected to his present position
with the National Broadcasting Comoany.
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LEADERS IN ATTACK ON PHILIPS RADIO PLANT DECORATED
Wing Commander Hughie Idwall Edwards V. C. , D« C. , of No.
105 Squadron was one of three winners of the Distinguished Service
Order announced by the Air Ministry, The medals were awarded for
participation in a daylight raid on the Philips radio factory at
Eindhoven, the Netherlands, last Dec. 6.
The two others decorated were Wing Commander J. E. Pelly-
Fry of No. 88 Squadron and Wing Commander R. H, Young, A. F. C. , of
No. 464 Squadron.
The Eindhoven operation, which, according to the Air
Ministry, was carried out faultlessly, did great damage to the radio
tube works, important in the German war effort. Information is still
trickling in to the Netherland authorities in London on the disloca¬
tion caused by the raid.
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FRANK BUTLER, RADIO OLD TIMER, NOW IN EDITORIAL HARNESS
Frank E. Butler, who has become Associate Editor of Radio
Retailing Today, has been active in radio from its very beginnings®
Back in 1904, with Dr, Lee de Forest, he operated a wireless
station at the World’s Fair in St. Louis, the first high-power trans¬
mitter to communicate with Chicago. In 1906 he built tne trans-
Atlantic station at Manhattan Beach, N. Y. , and sent messages to
Alexander Granara Bell in Ireland.
As Chief Engineer, he continued with deForst during the
historic experiments culminating in the invention of the audlon or
three-element tube, - the invention which laid the foundations for
modern radio and electronics. Later Mr. Butler helped develop the
wireless telephone, equipping 34 Navy shins under Admiral ’’Fighting
Bob” Evans. He also assisted deforest in developing the sound-on-
film technique, now known as talking motion-pictures.
Mr. Butler’s other inventions apply to sound amplification,
and in recent years he has occupied himself in writing a history of
the growth of radio.
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NEW RADIOTHEBMICS FIELD SPEEDS INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES
Success in research and development by engineers of RCA
Laboratories in applying radio- gene rate d heat to industrial pro¬
cesses during 1942, is opening a wide new field of activity known
as radiothemlcs, according to I. R. Baker, of RCA Victor Division,
reporting in the January issue of ’’Radio Age”, published by Radio
Corporation of America,
Spurred by the demands of war, this new thermic branch of
radio is developing with such rapidity that Mr. Baker oredicts radio-
thermic equipment will be used extensively by the end of 1943, He
estimates that before the close of the year, more radio- frequency
power will be installed for use in industry than the total installed
power of all broadcasting stations, approximately 3,712,000 watts,
in tnis country,
”We normally think of radio- frequency transmitters as a
means of making possible communication and entertainment”, said Mr.
Baker. ’’Today, the high radio frequencies are being used to shorten
production cycles, improve products and accomplish manufacturing
processes which were previously impractical. ”
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INDEX TO ISSUE OF JANUARY 15, 1943.
Petrillo Shrewdly Crosses Swords With Senators . 1
Senate Petrillo Probe May Bring Peace Parleys . 3
"WACCS* To Admit Qualified ’'WIRES" . 4
Radio Accessories Under Maximum Price Regulation . ,5
Proposes National Radio System For Congress . 6
Cox Again Out To Get Fly; Predicts FCC Probe . 7
Radio Engineers To Have Real Radio Convention . 8
Amos ’n’ Andy To Go Off Air After 12-g- Years .
Library of Congress Gets American' s Creed Record,
Trade Notes . 10
Rules ^r Caring ^or Farm Radio Batteries . ,.11
No. 1495
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January 15, 1943
PETRILLO SHREWDLY CROSSES SWORDS WITH SENATORS
Fro two solid days James Caesar Petrillo, President of the
American Federation of Musicians fenced back, and forth with the
Senate sub-committee in an effort to convince them of the Justifica¬
tion of his ban on musicians making records for broadcasting purposes.
Apparently nervous at the beginning and evidently never
quite comfortable on the witness stand ( ’’Have you ever sat where I
am now sitting? You wouldn't be able to answer all the questions
either", he shot back at one questioner as he mopped his brow).
Mr. Petrillo nevertheless seemed to be making a sincere effort to
cooperate with Senator Clark, of Idaho, Chairman of the Subcommittee,
and the other Senators in getting at the bottom of the music tangle.
Frequently there was surprising frankness in his replies. For
instance, when asked by Senator McFarland, of Arizona, if the ban
had proved anything but an annoyance or had helped him, and if he
was satisfied with his efforts, Petrillo replied: "No. By the time
we are through with this hearing and the court proceedings, we don't
know where we are at. " When asked by Senator Clark why he called
the musicians strike on the broadcasters, the witness answered. "I
didn't know we were going to run into anything like this." Another
time Mr. Petrillo said, somewhat dejectedly: "I didn't know we were
going to be crushed by newspaper publicity and court proceedings.
I see differently now. I think it is simply because the public
doesn't understand our position. "
Queried by Senator McFarland, "Aren't you headed for a pit-
fall?" Petrillo said: "That could happen." (Whereupon someone at
the Press Table stage-whispered. "It happened to the other Caesar. ")
Asked by Mr. McFarland if tne quality of tne broadcasting when records
were used was good, the witness replied: "Too good. Sometimes the
records come over better than the original. Sometimes they make a
second class band sound like a first class band. "
Unquestionably the highlight of tne proceedings was when
Senator Burton K. Wheeler, of Montana, took over the witness with
his "What do you want Petrillo? Who do you want it for?" Here the
sparks really flew. Wheeler brushed aside the union leader's
reply, "We want to be fair", by retorting, "Everybody wants to be
fair Just as everyone wants peace." Nevertheless Mr. Petrillo
refused to be specific. He acknowledged ordering his musicians to
stop playing for recordings without even telling the record companies
or the public what the organization wanted.
The admission brought from Senator Wheeler a blunt warning
that labor unions would destroy themselves unless they changed their
policies.
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"I am one of those who does not want to see unions destroy¬
ed”, he said, ’’but you must be aware that there is a tremendous grow¬
ing feeling among farmers and business people against unions. If
some of these labor leaders keep on as they have in the past, they
will destroy themselves. "
Petrillo insisted over and over again he "wanted more work
for his membership". Senator Clark said he knew of no instance
where "union members went on a strike without making known their
demands. "
Senator Wheeler, who said he had represented the union in
Montana in the past, warned Mr. Petrillo that his union could not
adopt a philosophy of "to hell with the public".
Senator Wheeler reminded Mr. Petrillo that he represented
a union in a proceeding in Montana brought by Mr. Arnold.
"And you beat hell out of him", Mr. Petrillo replied, "and
we have been doing the same thing. "
The witness referred to a recent refusal of the Federal
District Court at Chicago to issue a temporary injunction against
continuance of the recorded music ban.
In explaining his reason for not being specific for fear
that what he said might be used against him, Mr. Petrillo said:
"We’re in a very peculiar position", he declared. "We've
got a man named Thurman Arnold (Assistant Attorney General in charge
of the Justice Department's Anti- Trust Division). He's been after
me ever since I became president of the union. He says, ’if you
sign that contract, we’ll throw you all in the can for five years -
and we tear up the contract. ' "
The witness intimated that it was the fear of Mr. Arnold
that had prevented a settlement.
"There's no use beating about the bus", Mr. Petrillo stat¬
ed when he was pressed to be specific. "We want more work. We are
the only labor organization that makes the machine that is destroying
it. "
He repeated that the members of his union would make record
ings "at the request of the President of the United States. "
Senator Clark, of Idaho, Chairman of the Subcommittee,
recalled that the witness made this promise in writing several months
ago.
"it means what it says", Mr. Petrillo declared. "If after
an explanation of our position to the President he should decide that
we should stop the ban and continue to make recordings for the dura¬
tion of the war, his request would be granted. "
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This, he said, is the situation:
"^he recording companies are making all the money and the
musicians are starving to death. . . .
'’The transcription companies get nearly 1000 fees out of
one record. Why shouldn’t we get 1000 fees? We make it (the
record) .
’’The time is coming when the broadcasters will say,
Petrillo, we don’t need you and your musicians any more. "
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SENATE PETRILLO PROBE MAY BRING PEACE PARLEYS
There were definite indications at the end of the second
day's hearings that the Senate investigation would bring about peace
negotiations between the warring factions in the Petrillo music row.
Tne first sign of this was when the day before Joseph A. Padway,
General Counsel of the American Federation of Labor, declared that
any time the recording companies, the broadcasters and others wanted
to sit down in good faith in an effort to settle the disagreement,
the American Federation of Musicians would join in.
"We would even go to them", Mr. Padway told the Senate
Committee. "Furthermore if you Senators can yourselves offer a
satisfactory solution, we would accent that. ’’
Following the hearing Senator Clark said:
"We may well accept -Mr. Padway’ s suggestion. After these
hearings are all over and we have heard both sides of the case, we
may go into a huddle and as a result of this, offer our own solution,
as Mr. ? a dway suggests. If musicians union will formulate something
tangible that can be presented to the committee, I think we may have
something. *
The next day Senator Clark in the open session again
brought up the possibility of negotiations with the broadcasters and
the recording companies and asked Mr. Petrillo if he would lift the
ban while these were going on. He refused, saying:
"I’ve negotiated with these people locally and nationally
for 20 years. If they are permitted to make records while the negot¬
iations are going on, they’ll make enough to last two or three years.
He was just as firm in his objection to a 30-day suspension
asserting "they could make enough records in that time to last a
year, " and would "not be interested in any quick agreement. "
Petrillo said he would take tne matter up with the execu¬
tive committee of nis union; since it would have to approve formal
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demands upon the Industry. Ke said the Committee would meet in New
York February 1 and promised at that time to formulate the Music
federation1 s demands and present them to the Senate Committee. The
union leader said:
"We make no demands, but we would like to have a law to
put us into the position of A.S.C.A.P. Then we could get revenue
from every record made by a musician. "
Mr. Petrillo, wno was deadly serious most of the time but
revealed the fact that he had a pretty good sense of humor at that,
got quite a laugh when he admitted that he was surprised to get a
$90-a-week salary scale for Chicago "pancake turners", union music¬
ians wno just change records.
He told a Senate Interstate Commerce subcommittee that the
sale 1 8 $45 a week in St. Louis. He would have dropped the demand
for $90 in Chicago if he had been pressed, he said.
"They gave it to me and I couldn’t turn it down", he said.
The investigation has now been adjourned for about 10 days.
In the meantime, the Senate Committee will decide upon future proced¬
ure and who to hear next. Requests for opportunity to appear have
been received rrom the National Association of Broadcasters, trans¬
cription and record manufacturers, the "Juke box" people, music
schools and others.
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"WACCS" TO ADMIT QUALIFIED "WIRES"
The Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, better known as the
WAACS, will take into its ranks qualified members of the Women In
Radio and Electrical Service, commonly known as the WIRES. The
WIRES were first organized by a group of women students in Trinidad
Junior College, one of the schools used in the nationwide training
program of the Army Signal Corps. Officers of the Signal Corps and
WAAC arrived at Trinidad last week to start the enrollment program.
By making special arrangements for enrollment of these
qualified women, the WAAC is thereby adding to its ranks occupational
specialists already pretrained to some extent by the Army. About
8,000 civilian women have been taught as radio operators, technicians
and repairmen, and as telephone switchboard and instrument repair¬
men for the past few months at various schools and colleges through¬
out the country. They have been learning these technical trades
under the supervision of the Signal Corps, along with some 22,000
men in the enlisted reserve.
These women now trained as WIRES and in similar communica¬
tions work who successfully pass the qualifications can shortly be
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enrolled in the WAAC, the corps whose aim is the release of enlisted
men for combat service.
The general plan developed by the Signal Corps and the
WAAC specifies that applicants for the specialist Signal Corps train¬
ing with the WIRES will be accepted only upon their ability to pass
the examination for both the WIRES and the WAAC*
Upon enrollment in the WAAC, the women will be placed on
an inactive duty status during the time they are being trained by
the Signal Corps. When this communications training is completed,
and when needed by the WAAC, they will be called for active duty,
sent to a WAAC training center for basic military training, and then
ordered immediately to fill a vacancy for a communication specialist
in one of the WAAC companies doing work in the field. Those who
fail satisfactorily to complete the communications training may be
called to active duty as auxiliaries in the WAAC, discharged from
their inactive duty status, according to the needs of the WAAC.
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RADIO ACCESSORIES UNDER MAXIMUM PRICE REGULATION
Many more commodities - including radio and phonograph
equipment - are transferred from other price measures and brought
under control of Maximum Price Regulation No. 188; which establishes
manufacturer's maximum prices for hundreds of other consumer durable
and building material items, the Office of Price Administration
announced last Wednesday.
This includes Domestic radio accessories, but not radio
parts; Phonographs (except domestic electrical phonographs); Phono¬
graph accessories, but not records.
Regulation 188 provides four methods of pricing new articl¬
es, which must be applied in the order given. Thus, the second
method may be used if the first one cannot be applied, etc. These
methods briefly stated are as follows:
1. The maximum price of a new article which exhibits only minor
changes from an article already priced under any maximum price regu¬
lation of the Office of Price Administration, and which changes do
not reduce cost and materials or prevent its rendering fairly equiv¬
alent serviceability shall be the same as that of the article so
priced.
2. The maximum price for an article which has been substanti¬
ally changed from an article already priced under any maximum price
regulation of the Office of Price Administration solely because of
the shortages of materials or parts used in the original article,
shall be the price of the original article adjusted for the increase
or decrease in unit direct cost resulting from the change. Unit
direct cost shall be computed according to the procedures outlined
under Section 157 of the Regulation.
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3. The maximum price of a new article shell be that determined
by the "comparable-article" formula provided in the Regulation.
4. The maximum price of a new article which cannot be priced
by any of the three foregoing methods shall be that specifically
authorized by the Office of Pride Administration after proper appli¬
cation has been made by the manufacturer.
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PROPOSES NATIONAL RADIO SYSTEM FOR CONGRESS
Resenting criticism of Congress by columnists and radio
commentators, Representative John E. Rankin (D. ) , of Mississippi,
has proposed, with the approval of his colleague Representative Karl
E. Mundt (R. ), of South Dakota, special radio facilities for Capitol
Hill.
"The time has come when Congress is constantly abused,
maligned, and villified over the radio", Representative Rankin
declared, addressing the House. "This is one of the problems we are
going to have to meet. As far as I am concerned, I am in favor of
Congress making arrangements whereby we may either have a national
radio system or time divided between the two sides of both House
and Senate in order that Members and Senators may go on the radio
and speak to the American people on issues that confront the Congress
and thus offset a lot of the propaganda and insinuations that are
being spread by a few flannel-mouthed propagandists who are doing
more to destroy American institutions than they are to spread public
information. "
"The gentleman has put his finger on a very important
point", Congressman Mundt said. "May I suggest that the radio is
relatively fair from the standpoint of its distribution of time among
points of view. The difficulty the gentleman refers to comes primar¬
ily because speakers use sponsored time to abuse Members of Congress.
"That is right", Mr. Rankin interjected.
"I think some legislation should be directed to the situa¬
tion that permits the power of the press to determine who is going
to control the air to attack Members of Congress", Mr. Mundt con¬
tinue d.
"Congress should move into the driver* s seat so far as its
onw affairs and its own protection are concerned", Representative
Rankin concluded.
Representative Rankin had previously proposed, so that the
soldiers get the facts that the edition of the Congressional Record
be doubled and a copy sent to every member of the armed forces, which
suggestion occasioned quite a laugh in the Press and Radio Galleries
of the House.
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COX AGAIN OUT TO GET FLY; PREDICTS FCC PROBE
Representative Cox of Georgia, ranking Democrat on the
Rules Committee, has resumed his old feud with Chairman James L.
Fly, of the Federal Communications Commission. He predicts that
the House Rules Committee will report on Monday the Cox Resolution
calling for investigation of the FCC. Representative Cox said
further that the resolution would pass the House the following day
and that there would "not be 20 votes against it".
The first signs of a resumption of the Cox-FLy fight was
when Mr. Cox demanded in the House Thursday that impeachment pro¬
ceedings be instituted against unidentified Government officials.
He refused to amplify a half-minute speech in which he
demanded the action, but predicted speedy Rules Committee approval
of a resolution to investigate the Federal Communications Commission,
headed by James L. Fly.
"You can draw your own inferences", he told reporters.
"The time has come", the Georgian told the House, "for
this House to protect itself and the country against the scorn, the
abuse and the dictatorship of tne bureaucrats by resorting to the
process of impeachment. "
During tne day, Marcus Cohn, counsel of the FCC, denounced
as "unsupported innuendoes and insinuations" the charges made by
attorneys for an Albany, Ga. radio station that commission investi¬
gators were more interested in trying to "get something on" Repres¬
entative Cox than they were in the station’s business.
Cohn said that failure of the radio station' s records to
show that Arthur Lucas and W. K. Jenkins, Georgians who operate
several theatrical enterprises, had an interest as stockholders in
the broadcasting company operating station WALB had prompted the com¬
mission' s inquiry, now in its fourth day of hearings.
H. T. McIntosh, President of the Albany Herald Publishing
Co. and the Albany Herald Broadcasting Co. had testified that $2500
was paid Cox in whose district Albany lies, for legal services he
could render "in an ethical and legal manner" which would not be in
conflict with his status as a Congressman.
Mr. Cox told the Washington Post that the $2500 check was
indorsed and sent back by him and there was then sent to him stock
in a new corporation "which never has functioned" and that he trans¬
ferred the stock to a "private charity".
Delacey Allen, lawyer for WALB, told FCC Examiner Don
Harris that he felt his previous charge that the Commission was prim¬
arily interested in "getting something on" Cox was supported while
Conn contended that his statements as to the reason for the hearing
answered Allen' s allegations.
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At one point, Allen asked McIntosh:
"I ask you if I ever made the charge to them (two FCC
investigators) that they wanted to use the $2500 check to embarrass
Judge Cox and whether they denied that?”
McIntosh replied: "I recall that statement, but I do not
recall any denial. They said they were not at liberty to discuss
the matter. "
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RADIO ENGINEERS TO HAVE REAL RADIO CONVENTION
Because war has made it impossible to foregather as usual,
The Institute of Radio Engineers will hold a better part of its
annual convention this year over the air. By radio, as it were.
The Columbia Broadcasting System network provides the facilities,
which are to link conferences of IRE sections all over the country
with section meetings in Washington and New York Thursday, January 280
(10:30 to 10:45 PM, EWT).
James L. Fly, Chairman of the Federal Communications Com¬
mission, will be heard as he makes the principal address before the
annual dinner of the Washington section in the Willard Hotel. Then
the broadcast switches to New York for the installation of the new
IRE president, Dr. Lynde P. Wheeler.
The Radio Engineers medal of honor will be presented to
William Wilson for "achievements in the development of modern
electronics and for contributions to the welfare and work of the
institute. " Ten other members will receive fellowships. At a
special-papers symposium certain uncensored phases of the war work
of leading radio experts will be explained for the benefit and
education of other institute members. The speakers and topics are:
Rear Admiral S. C. Hooper, Chief Radio Engineer of the
Navy, "Production of War Facilities for the Armed Services"'; Lloyd
Espenschied, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, "Radio in fwo
World Wars"; Ray Ellis, WPB Director of Radio-Radar, "inunction of
the War Production Board in Radio", and other experts of the Army-
Navy Electronics Agency, American Standards Association and War
Manpower Commission.
The subject of "Ultra-High frequencies" will be covered
during the Joint evening session on January 28 by Dr. George C.
Southworth of the Bell Telephone Laboratories.
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AMOS ’N! ANDY TO GO OFF AIR AFTER 12£ YEARS
Amos 'n' Andy will algn off February 19th after having
been on the networks continuously for 12-| years. The immediate
reason for their going was the necessity felt by their sponsor,
Campbell Soup to cut the time down to a half-hour period once a week.
It was explained that wartime restrictions on the supply of canned
foods changed the character of the advertising - where before it had
been to increase consumption, now it is institutional.
Amos ’n’ Andy, who have been with Campbell more than 5 years,
feeling that their 15 minute daily period was essential to their con¬
tinued success decided to call it quits.
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GETS AMERICAN’S CREED RECORD
Representative Stefan ( R. ) , of Nebraska, has presented to
the Library of Congress a radio recording of the "American’s Creed",
by its author, the late William Tyler Page, longtime employee of the
House.
Library officials said the recording will become a perman¬
ent part of the archives of American folk songs and speeches and
characterized it as of "immense historical value because it is the
only known recording of the reading of the creed by the author. "
Mr. Stefan explained that the recording was made October
10, 1941, for broadcast over the Norfolk (Nebr. ) Daily News radio
station WJAG. It consists of an interview of Mr. Page by Mr. Stefan,
during the course of which the Representative asked that the author
read the creed.
Starting as a page boy, Mr. Page was an employee of the
House for 61 years. He was chief clerk at one time and was special
clerk to the minority at the time of his death last year. He was
born at Frederick, Md. , October 19, 1868.
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Broadcasts by the Martinique short-wave radio, which had
been sending out "news" from Vichy French propaganda, sources even
after the Vichy break with the United States, have been discontinued
at the request of the State Department.
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:: TRADE NOTES :::
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James C. Petrlllo, President of the American Federation
of Musicians, will serve on the invitation of Mark Woods, President
of tne Blue Network, as a member of the Committee to raise money
for the Boy Scout Foundation of Greater New York. Mr. Woods is
Chairman of the Public Service Division's business men's committee
of the organization. Frank White, Treasurer of the Columbia Broad¬
casting System, is also a member of the Boy Scout money raising
committee.
Stimulated in their action by recent outbreaks in south¬
ern Pennsylvania of smallpox, some 40 emplohees of radio station
WINX in Washington were vaccinated for the disease yesterday at the
request of their employer, Laurence J. Heller.
Justifying an increase in pay for the privates in the
Police Department employed at the Washington Police radio station
WPDW, the District of Columbia Commissioners in their budger recom¬
mendations, said:
"All of these men are highly trained technicians and it
is felt that some provision should be made to provide additional
compensation for this work. "
The Commissioners said the officer in charge of WPDW
should be given the rank and pay of lieutenant and that the oper¬
ators and dispatchers and servicemen be given the rank and pay of
sergeant.
Increased and intensified promotional activities for pub¬
lic service programs by stations affiliated with NBC were agreed
upon at the first quarterly meeting of the newly elected NBC stations
Planning and Advisory Committee held in New York Tuesday.
James D. Shouse of WLW, Cincinnati, was named Chairman of
the Committee for 1943. Mr. Shouse succeeds Paul Morency of WTIC,
Hartford, wno was Chairman of the first committee which served dur¬
ing 1942. After a review of the year' s activity, it was decided
that meetings hereafter should be of two-da.y duration instead of
one. In the evening, a Joint session was held with the NBC Manage¬
ment Committee at the Hotel St. Regis. Dr. James Rowland Angell,
NBC Public Service Counsellor, was the principal speaker at the
dinner session.
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RULES FOR CARING FOR FARM RADIO BATTERIES
Battery-run radios - particularly those used on farms -
should be operated on the basis of obtaining at the very most only
a single set of replacement batteries a year, the Consumer Durable
Goods Division said this week.
Pointing out that production of farm radio batteries has
been cut due to restrictions on zinc and to other factors, the Divi¬
sion urged radio owners to follow simple conservation rules for
assuring maximum service from their present supply.
Wholehearted observance of the rules, it was stated, will
go far towards keeping farm radios in operation despite wartime
restrictions on production of batteries and will assist farm families
to keep abreast of developments on the war fronts both at home and
abroad.
The rules are:
1. Don't waste your batteries. Operate your radio only when
there are programs that you particularly want to hear.
2. Avoid long, continuous radio operation. Break up your
reception into a number of snort periods.
3. Keep batteries away from heat.
4. Have the tubes checked regularly as insurance against
battery wastage.
5. Disconnect tne batteries from the radio when not in opera¬
tion. This will be a double-check against the radio being left on
accidentally. It is also a guard against young children in the
family operating tne radio unnecessarily.
The shortage of batteries, which has been experienced gen¬
erally throughout the country for the past several months, is due
to military requirements as well as to the zinc shortage, and has
developed at a time when the war news and transportation restrictions
have naturally resulted in greatly increased use of radios.
Last July 24, Order M-ll-b (zinc) cut the use of zinc in
all types of dry cell batteries fifty percent below 1941 consumption.
In an effort to alleviate this situation, Order B071 was issued on
October 2 eliminating entirely production of batteries for portable
radios and establishing specific quotas for production of farm radio
batteries, flashlight batteries and other types for industrial and
occupational use. The effect of this action was to limit the use of
available zinc to the most essential- batteries, in which were include
radio batteries.
Most recent models of portable radios can be operated on
household electric current; the remainder will have to be stored away
for the duration once present stocks of batteries are exhausted.
To attain the objective of maintaining farm radios in operation, more
than half of the zinc allocation for civilian batteries is now used
for production of farm radio batteries, but until military require¬
ments are fully met there is little possibility of any additional
allocations. Also the available suoply of batteries has been alloc¬
ated to various parts of the country on as equitable a basis as
possible. No priority rating is granted or needed for purchase of
radio batteries by consumers.
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INDEX TO ISSUE OF JANUARY 19, 1943
1942 Radio Sales 154 Million; War Output 2 Billion . 1
Senate Radio Committee Adds Two Republicans .
Wheeler Says Helped Keep Critic On Radio .
Powel Crosley, Jr. , Marries .
Says Commentators Franker About Africa Than Press
Essential Communications Occupations List Out Soon . 5
A. T. & T. Long Lines Hearings To Resume . 6
Petrillo's Attorney Seeks Dismissal Of U. S. Suit . 7
Supreme Court To Review KOA-WHDA Case . 7
FCC Chairman Going Abroad? . . . . . 7
Irate Solon Calls FCC wFte. tsM As House Votes Probe . 8
Senate Approves Merger Of U. S. Wire Companies Only . .9
Trade Notes . . . 10
WLW Cops Meritorious Station Award For ^ifth Time . 11
Editors To Air Censorship Views . 11
No. 1496
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January 19, 1943
1942 RADIO SALES 154 MILLION; WAR OUTPUT 2 BILLION
0. H. Caldwell, Chairman of the Civilian Radio Committee,
working in cooperation with the War Production Board, estimating
that military radio production probably has soared to two billion
dollars this year, reports the following with regard to the 1942
sale of civilian sets and tubes, cost of power, and number of sets
in use:
Civilian Radio Set And Tube Sales For 1942
Number
Retail Value
Total sets sold during 1942
Radio Sets exported
Automobile radios
Home radios sold in U. S.
Total tubes sold, U. 3.
Tubes, initial equipment
Tubes, replacements
Parts, supplies
Phonograph records
4,400,000
500,000
350,000
3,550,000
87,700,000
34,700,000
53,000,000
110,000,000
$154,000 ,000
17,500,000
12, 250,000
124,250,000
96,000,000
38,000,000
58,000,000
70,000,000
48,000,000
Note: In April, WPB ordered all civilian radio-set produ¬
ction stopped and factories converted to war produc¬
tion. Total military radio production during 1942
is believed to approach two billion dollars.
Annual Bill Of U. S. For Radio
Sales of time by broadcasters, 1942
Talent costs
Electricity, batteries, etc., to operate
50,340,000 sets
3,900,000 radios sold in 1942 at retail
53,000,000 replacement tubes
Radio parts, supplies, etc.
Servicing radio sets
Total
$203,000,000
40,000,000
225,000,000
136, 500,000
58,000,000
70,000,000
70,000,000
$802, 500,000
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Radio Sets In Use
Jan, 1, 1942 Jan, 1, 1945
U. S. homes with radios
’’Secondary " sets in above homes
Battery portables
Auto- radio s
29, 700,000
15,000,000
2,800,000
8, 500,000
30,000,800
16,660,000
3,130,000
8,750,000
Total sets in use, U. S.
56,000,000
59,340,000
"The radio industry's sights are raised all-out for war",
Mr. Caldwell writes in Radio Today. "And the industry which used
to turn out 14 million radio sets in a good year, is now converted
nearly 100 per cent to the production of military radio. In the
words of Ray Ellis, Director of the Radio and Radar Division of the
War Production Board, 'Radio is our best converted industry. ’
"But the production of military radio for the fighting
forces - Army, Navy, Air Forces and Marines - now mounts to dizzy¬
ing heights measured in many billions. In fact, it is conservat¬
ively estimated that this year, 1943, the total manufactured value
of U, S, radio equipment will run from fifteen to twenty times the
greatest peace-time output ever rolled up by this booming industry
of ours.
"Fifteen to twenty times.’ Think what that means in
materials, manpower and womanpower, building, machinery and tools,
and management problems.
"In some parts and components that go into military radio,
the demand is now for production in a few hours, as much as was
turned out in an entire year, before Pearl Harbor.' Other expansions
of production have been of almost equal violence, draining every
resource of facilities to get vital parts into production, so that
our men everywhere on our far-flung battle fronts will have the com¬
munications and detection equipment they need.
"Meanwhile under the assignment of the WPB, radio industry
engineers and executives are simplifying and standardizing military
and civilian radio, so that the minimum of repair and replacement
parts will go the longest way.
"'T’he stipulation has been made by the WPB that no provi¬
sion shall be made for replacements for automobile radios or
battery-portable sets, (Where three-way portables are employed at
times on house current as the home’s only radio receiver, such sets
will be considered on the same basis as regular home sets). varm
radios powered by batteries will, of course, be taken care of, but
these are the only battery sets for which it is proposed to provide
dry-cells, tubes or parts. "
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SENATE RADIO COMMITTEE ADDS TWO REPUBLICANS
The Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, which passes
on radio legislation in the upper branch of Congress, has added
two Republicans to its membership. They are Senators A. W. Hawke s,
of New Jersey, former President of the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States, and Edward Moore, of Oklahoma, independent oil pro¬
ducer, farmer and cattle raiser.
The other members of the Committee are Burton K. Wheeler,
of Montana (Chairman), Ellison D. Smith, of South Carolina, Robert
F. Wagner, of New York, Alben W. Barkley, of Kentucky, Homer T.
Bone, of Washington, Harry S. Truman, of Missouri, Edwin C. Johnson,
of Colorado, Lister Hill, of Alabama, Tom Stewart, of Tennessee,
D. Worth Clark, of Idaho, James M. Tunnell, of Delaware, Ernest W.
McFarland, of Arizona, Wallace H. White, Jr., of Maine, Warren R.
Austin, of Vermont, Henrik Shipstead, of Minnesota, Charles W.
Tobey, of New Hampshire, Clyde M. Reed, of Kansas, Chan Gurney, of
South Dakota, C. Wayland Brooks, of Illinois,
Senator Hawkes has also been added to the Senate Patents
Committee - the only new member of that body.
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WHEELER SAYS HELPED KEEP CRITIC ON RADIO
Answering criticism of him by Drew Pearson, the newspaper
columnist, Senator Burton K. Wheeler ( D. ) , of Montana, said:
’’When a former Governor of New York was told that some
politician was against him, he said, ’I cannot understand why that
man is against me, because I never did anything for him that I can
recall. ’
”1 could not understand why Drew Pearson was against me,
because I did not remember anything I had done for Drew Pearson.
Then I happened to recall that when there was an attempt to put him
off the air at one time, when I was in the Orient with a group of
Senators and Representatives, I was cabled and asked if I would not
intercede for him; and I did, and helped to have him kept on the
radio at that time.
"On another occasion, when he and his partner were about
to be thrown off one of the newspaper chains, ne and his partner
talked to me and I again tried to do something for them. When
Pearson's father was appointed to office and was being attacked,
again he came to me.
"I know some of my colleagues will say, 'Why pay any
attention to it? Nobody believes him, nobody trusts him, nobody
has any confidence in him. ' I agree that no one in the Senate of
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whom I know has the slightest respect for him, for his truthful¬
ness, his honesty, or his integrity. But one gets weary of a man
of that kind, who has access to the radio, speaking over the radio,
and attacking members of the Government. "
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POWEL CROSLEY, JR. , MARRIES
Powel Grosley, Jr., President of the Crosley Radio Cor¬
poration of Cincinnati, was married Saturday, January 9th to
Mrs. Marianna Richards Wallingford at North Vernon, Indiana.
This was Mr. Crosley' s second marriage, the first Mrs. Crosley,
the former Gwendolyn Bakewell Aiken having died in 1939,
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SAYS COMMENTATORS FRANKER ABOUT AFRICA THAN PRESS
Discussing what it calls "Censorship Discontent", the
Editor and Publisher says:
"Some radio commentators have apparently been more real¬
istic in their stories from Africa than the headlines of some
metropolitan newspapers, but the first real light on the African
scene came from Ernie Pyle to the Scripps-Howard Newspaper two
weeks ago.
"The African scene is one of crucial importance to the
future conduct of the war and it is one which all intelligent
Americans should be permitted to understand on the basis of com¬
plete and uncolored news at the first opportunity. Brief radio
dispatches won’t serve that end. Neither will the terse and techn¬
ical language of official communiques. The assignment calls for
the best men that press and radio can send - and, in the main, it
has had them. Their presence is futile, however, unless they are
permitted to give their readers the results of their reporting,
Just as soon as those results cease to have military value to the
enemy, "
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The Board of War Communications has established a system
of priorities for teletypewriter communication similar to that for
long-distance telephone calls. mhe order is effective February 1.
Priority will be given to messages which require "immediate trans¬
mission for vrar purposes or to safeguard life or property, "
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ESSENTIAL COMMUNICATIONS OCCUPATIONS LIST OUT SOON
There was a lengthy discussion of the manpower situation
at the press conference of Chairman James L. Fly, of the Federal
Communications Commission last Monday. Mr. Fly said:
”1 suppose all of you here are about as well informed on
the manpower situation as I am, but as you know the work in pre¬
paring the list of essential occupations has been going on for some
time, and incidentally it has been a very large and detailed Job.
But it is in very fine shape right now and through the cooperation
of the War Manpower Commission I think all the information on the
final setup there will be out and distributed in the course of days.
I think all concerned in that matter have worked very hard on it and
have turned out a very splendid job.
"Is there a oroblem of di stribut ion ? " Mr. Fly was asked.
"That's the size of it", he replied. "You see, we have
many thousands of licensees; for example, when we initially thought
of sending this to everyone. Now I think we are going to have to
take some short-cut Just as a matter of physical handling and as a
matter of economy we shall have to take some short-cuts and make
it available to everyone but not necessarily lay it in the hands of
all of these people. "
"Is there some confusion between the equipment and man¬
power?" Russell R. Clevenger, in charge of FCC Press Relations,
inquired.
"Maybe I am all wrong on that", Mr. ^y replied. "We
have a physical problem on one. "
"It’s on the registration of equipment", said Mr. Cleven-
ge r.
"Everything I said about the manpower situation stands
except that referring to distribution", Mr. Fly resumed. "That is
applicable to the equipment situation and I might say too that
everything I have said about the people who worked on that, includ¬
ing the various persons and concerns in the industry, all those who
have worked on this equipment problem have done a swell job on It
and we have a very complete record but that is the thing that has
presented the physical problem. That will be given distribution in
the course of days but it will not go out to the thousands of
people that may be concerned with it. It will be placed where they
can easily get it. "
Q. "Speaking of the report on equipment, are you referring to the
voluntary pooling plan?"
Chairman Fly: "No, this is not a pooling olan. That is basically
an informational setup where everybody sets forth with some
accurate description just what he has which is available and
then we give that information to everyone else and he in turn
gets the information regarding equipment that all the other
people have."
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Q. "How will that be administered?"
Chairman: "There is a pooling only on the information. "
Q. "How will it operate effectively - through the FCC field
offices? "
Chairman: "I don’t think we have any mechanics for administering
it. "
Mr. Clevenger: "I think the big volumes which list all the equio-
ment would be available certainly to the field offices. It’s
purely an informational service as I see it. "
Chairman: "Yes, and after the information is made available, then
everyone is on his own. "
Q,. "This is the result of the questionnaire which you sent out
for that general information?"
Chairman: "That's right. I am sorry about confusing that problem
of distribution. "
Q. "On these questionnaires, what was the purpose of getting this
information? To make available to one station what it needed?"
Chairman: "Information on equipment. To make all the information
as to equipment available to everyone that may be concerned. "
Q,. "If they need something they can rent it?"
Chairman: "From the time they get the information they will be on
their own. "
Q. "Do you plan to keep that up to date periodically?"
Chairman: "I would imagine that at subsequent intervals we would
probably get out supolementary sheets. I don’t know. You
see the trouble there is that it involves a lot of detailed
work. Frankly I don't know what the staff has prepared on
that. "
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A. T. & T. LONG- LINES HEARINGS TO RESUME
The Investigation which the Federal Communications Com¬
mission started last month of the long-line rates of the American
Telephone & Telegraph Company including the charges of long distance
telephone lines connecting the broadcasting stations, will be
resumed Wednesday, January 20th.
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PETRILLO'S ATTORNEY SEEKS DISMISSAL OF U. S. SUIT
In Chicago last Monday, David KatzKT, attorney for James C.
Petrillo and either other officers of the AEL American Federation
of Musicians, asked the Federal Court to dismiss a Government
request for an injunction to prevent enforcement of the union’s ban
on making records for public purposes.
Attorney Katz, appearing in chambers of Judge John P.
Barnes, argued that the court lacked Jurisdiction, that the anti¬
trust laws were not involved and that the Norris-La Guardia Act
applied, since the issue concerned was a labor dispute according
to an earlier court ruling.
Judge Barnes set January 25 for hearing arguments on the
motion to dismiss and February 8 for hearing the Government’s argu¬
ments for a preliminary injunction. The Government was prepared to
argue Monday in behalf of the preliminary order.
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SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW KOA-WHDH CASE
The Supreme Court last Monday agreed to review a lower
court decision which directed that the Federal Communications Com¬
mission permit one radio station to intervene in a proceeding to
increase another’s power and time.
The FCC appealed from a D. C. Court of Appeals decision
that Station KOA in Denver should be permitted to become a party
to a hearing on an application by WHDH, of Boston, for more power
and nighttime service.
Both stations operate on 850 kc. but the FCC found that
WHDH’s Increased time would not interfere with KOA' s service in the
western part of the United States.
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FCC CHAIRMAN GOING ABROAD?
Chairman James L. Fly of the Federal Communications Com¬
mission when asked if he was planning a trip abroad anytime in the
near future, replied:
"Well, I am open to suggestions."
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IRATE SOLON CALLS FCC ’’RATS'1 AS HOUSE VOTES PROBE
Following one of the most bitter denunciations heard in
Congress in recent years, the House, with hardly a dissenting voice,
this (Tuesday) afternoon passed the resolution of Representative
Cox ( D. ) , of Georgia, to put the Federal Communications Commission
on the spot. Mr. Cox proposing the investigation, characterized
the FCC as the "nastiest mess of rats in the country". He accused
Chairman James L. Fly and certain of his associates of "well known
communistic affiliations and charged that the Commission had
"repeatedly tried to smear me" since the Introduction of a previous
resolution to investigate the Commission last year.
”Fly set his Gestapo like a pack of wolves on my trail",
Representative Cox told the House. He said they sought to investi¬
gate his mail through the Post Office, urged the Department of
Justice to prosecute him, and had his income tax returns over a
period of 10 years probed by the Bureau of Internal Revenue. They
even went into income tax reports of the clerks in ray office. "
Representative Cox was named Chairman of the Committee
to investigate the FCC and the other four members are Hart ( D. ) ,
of New Jersey, Magnuson ( D. ) , of Washington, Wiggle sworth (R. ),
of Massachusetts, and Miller ( R. ) , of Missouri.
The Committee is "authorized and directed to conduct a
study and investigation of the organization, personnel, and activ¬
ities of the Federal Communications Commission with a view to
determining whether or not such Commission in its organization, in
the selection of personnel, and in the conduct of its activities,
has been and is acting in accordance with law and the public inter¬
est. "
The resolution (H. R. 21) was the result of an old feud
between Mr. Cox and Mr. Fly. Mr. Cox was accused of having accepted
a check for $2,500 while a member of Congress to represent Station
WALB, at Albany, Ga, in Cox’s Congressional district. DeLacey Allen,
attorney for the station, had previously declared that the services
of Mr. Cox were legal and ethical. Under Federal statute a member
of Congress is not permitted to practice before an agency of the
Federal Government.
On Monday when the House Rules Committee, of which Mr.
Cox is the ranking member, unanimously approved the Cox resolution,
Representative Sparkman, of Alabama, proposed an Investigation of
the entire radio industry as well as the FCC.
"We want to know what the Commission is doing", Mr. Spark¬
man said, "but more important even than that, we want to know about
the industry, an industry in which a few networks dominating the
field make inordinate profits and in which the small independent
stations in our rural sections are being forced to the wall. "
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In supporting his demand for an inquiry also into the
broadcasting field, Mr. Soarkman told the House:
”In 1941 the return on net investment after taxes, was
about 60 per cent for the National Broadcasting Co. , and for the
Columbia Broadcasting System.
’’While this was going on, 200 or 300 of our smaller sta¬
tions lost money and they are still losing money. During this war,
the small radio station, along with other small businesses, is
threatened with extinction.
wWe cannot afford to let that happen. "
Mr, Sparkman said he wanted to know the extent of monopoly
and control over sources of radio program materials, whether vari¬
ous "controversial ” organizations are denied radio time, whether
at-home supporters of members of Congress who remained in Washing¬
ton during the last national political campaign were denied radio
time, and also whether complaints about increasing vulgarity and
suggestiveness on the air were justified.
’’Commentators, too, merit our attention”, Mr. Sparkman
added. ’’Whose interests are they serving? The recent attacks upon
this body over the radio are serious business. We want to know
what is back of all this.
”We want to know what efforts have been made to present
the other side and if none have been made, why not?”
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SENATE APPROVES MERGER OF U.S. WIRE COMPANIES ONLY
The Senate Interstate Commerce Committee unanimously
approved Monday a bill permitting the merger of the Western Union
and Postal Telegraoh Companies.
Senator McFarland, (D. ), of Arizona, said the measure was
unchanged from the previous Congress.
In its report, the committee said the entire domestic
telegraph industry was feeling seriously the effect of competition
from the telephone, radio and airmail and urged that it be placed
in a stronger position in order to aid in successful prosecution
of the: war.
The measure, general in its terms, would permit the
voluntary consolidation or merger of domestic telegraph companies
only.
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TRADE NOTES : :
Capt. Amilcar Dutra, Director of the Radio Division of
the Department of Press and Information of Brazil, was honored at
a luncheon at the 21 Club last Friday by officials of the National
Broadcasting Company.
The Latin American official also made a tour of the NBC
studios and offices and attended the Toscanini broadcast last
Sunday.
Capt. Dutra recently arrived in the United States for a
month’s visit at the invitation of Nelson Rockefeller, Coordinator
of Inter- American Affairs.
A new electronic half-cycle, synchronous control for the
precise operation of resistance-welding machines has been announc¬
ed by the General Electric Company. Mounted in a protecting
cabinet, the control is furnished in two types: one which also
Includes a welding transformer and is designed for bench mounting,
and the other which is without a transformer and is designed for
wall mounting. The control features a new tube; a new circuit which
makes higher-speed welding possible, and a simplified initiating
circuit which improves performance and reduces maintenance.
Perry Wightman of Hyattsville, a suburb of Washington,
was appointed to the post of Procurement Officer for the War
Emergency Radio Service of Maryland by Col. Henry S. Barrett, State
Director of air raid precautions. Mr. Wightman will continue as
Radio Director for Prince Georges County, in which he has developed
a network of amateur radio operators for emergency communication.
Robert B. Stone will be the new Program Manager of WRGB,
General Electric television station in Schenectady, according to
Robert S. Peare, Manager of G. E, broadcasting. Mr. Stone, who
has been working on program production at the station since November
1941, succeeds John G. T. Gllmour, who has gone into the Signal
Corps.
A native of Lewiston, Maine, Mr. Stone was graduated from
tne Eastman School of Music, Rochester, N. Y. in 1932 and in the
Fall of that year became a member of the staff of WGY. His duties
included program production and the writing of scripts and musical
arrangements. In January, 1936, he left WGY to work for the radio-
recording division of NBC and later Joined the production staff of
CBS. In November, 1941, he became a member of the production staff
of the television station WRGB.
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WLW COPS MERITORIOUS STATION AWARD vqr FIFTH TIME
WLW, at Cincinnati, has won for the fifth time Variety
Magazine's Special Award. This award for outstanding merit in some
field of war endeavor, or as Variety says, "for promoting better
understanding of war issues”, comes at a time when the staff of
the Nation’s station, under the direction of James D. Shouse, Vice-
President of the Crosley Corporation in Charge of Broadcasting, is
pledged to continue and expand its contributions to winning the war.
The Variety citation has this to say about WLW:
”A global war is something new in the history of mankind.
It staggers the Imagination even to think of the world at war. And
just as surely as the conflict is bringing far places and strange
peoples into our consciousness for the first time, the peace must
bind all places and all peoples Into a new kind of brotherhood.
"In order to achieve this brotherhood we must arm our¬
selves with knowledge and understanding. We must understand the
multiple issues involved .... must know what sort of people we
are fighting against, and for.
"The finest contribution of radio towards this end has
been made by Station WLW. "
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EDITORS TO AIR CENSORSHIP VIEWS
Several members of the American Society of Newspaper
Editors will participate in a nationwide radio broadcast over the
Mutual Broadcasting System, Sunday, Jan. 24, at 8 P.M. , EWT, dis¬
cussing "How Far Censorship?" The program has been organized by
Theodore G-ranik, Director of the American w0rum of the Air, and his
assistant, Nathan L. Sllberberg. Byron Price will represent the
Office of Censorship. Others participating on the program will be
Wilbur Forrest, assistant editor, New York Herald Tribune; Palmer
Hoyt, editor, Portland Oregonian; Roy Roberts, managing editor,
Kansas City Star; A. H. Kirchhofer, managing editor, Buffalo Evening
News, and Basil L. Walters, executive editor, Minneapolis Star
Journal and Tribune. The broadcast, which will originate in Wash¬
ington, will be on the evening following the close of the ASNE meet¬
ing in Washington, and members of the Society will be invited to
attend and particioate in the questioning of their colleagues who
are on the panel. In addition, many Congressmen and other govern¬
mental officials will be invited to the broadcast and to participate
in the questioning.
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30 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA, NEW YORK, N
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2400 CALIFORNIA STREET
WASHINGTON, D. C.
INDEX TO ISSUE OF JANUARY 22, 1943
Cox Against Combining FCC And Radio Industry Probes . 1
House Apparently Strongly Behind Cox . 3
Differences Seen In House And Senate Merger Bills . 4
Civil Air Patrol Stations Established By FCC . 6
Would Try "Benedict Arnold" Broadcasters . 7
Broadcasters Benefit by $50,000,000 A. T. & T. Cut . . . 8
Admiral Hooper, International Radio Expert, Retires . 9
Questions Petrillo’s Right To Suppress Anything . 10
Trade Notes . 11
No. 1497
January 23, 1943.
COX AGAINST COMBINING FCC AND RADIO INDUSTRY PROBES
Despite the fact that Representative Sparkman (D. ), of
Alabama introduced a resolution to broaden the Cox investigation of
the Federal Communications Commission which the House ordered last
Tuesday to include a probe of the broadcasting industry, Representa¬
tive Cox (D. ), of Georgia is opposed to doing this.
Mr. Cox said that it was enough for his committee to take
them on one at a time and that he believed until the FCC investiga¬
tion had been disposed of that his committee should confine itself
solely to that.
"If there is to be an investigation, we want one which
will get into the basic issues*, Mr. Sparkman declared. "I have
no objection to the Cox resolution except that it is too limited.
We want to know what the Commission is doing.
"But more important even that that we want to know about
the industry, an Industry in which a few networks dominating the
field make Inordinate profits and in which the small Independent
stations in our rural sections are being forced to the wall * * *
During this year, the small radio station, along with other small
businesses, Is threatened with extinction. We cannot afford to
let that happen, with gasoline rationing, they are more important
than ever. They are the backbone of independent broadcasting ser¬
vice in the interest of our own local communities, and in the inter¬
est of the Nation at war. We must not have the building up of
monopoly, control, and inordinate profits at one end of the line
and economic disaster at the other end.
"We want to know the extent of the monopoly and control
exercised by a very few of our 130,000,000 people over this, the
world’s most effective medium for molding public opinion. We want to
know how that control is tied up with control over the sources of
program material - over records and transcriptions, for example.
Can small record and transcription companies survive? Our small
Independent stations cannot get network service. Those on the net¬
works get little or nothing from it. Stations, especially the
Independent ones, rely to a great extent upon transcriptions. We
want to know whether there is any undue concentration of control
here and whether it is being exercised to the detriment of the
Independent stations.
"We also want to know how the control of radio broadcasting
is being exercised in the terms of what the public is permitted to
hear. We want to know how it is that organizations like the Cooper¬
ative League are denied time to use the frequencies which belong to
the public. * * *
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’’And the use of radio in political campaigns is another
matter we have reason to be concerned with. Some Congressmen who
remained in Washington during the recent campaign have particular
reason to be concerned over the action of radio stations in denying
time to their supporters back home.
’’There are other matters any investigation should Include.
All of us no doubt have received complaints in recent weeks about
the great wave of vulgarity, obscenity, and suggestiveness that
has been coming in over various radio programs.
” Commentators , too, merit our attention. Whose interests
are they serving? The recent attacks upon this body over the radio
are serious business. We want to know what is back of all this. We
want to know what efforts have been made to present the other side,
and if none have been, why not. ”
Representative Voorhis (D.), of California, agreed that
the investigation should cover the whole broadcasting field.
Representative Rankin ( D. ) , of Mississippi, asked why
the Rules Committee had not accepted at least some of the provisions
suggested by Mr. Sparkman and also to investigate ’’the gentlemen
wno are using the radio for selfish or for propaganda purposes. M
’’And for smear purposes”, said Representative Hamilton
Fish (r.), of New York. "Of course it would mean an entirely
different investigation, a very much broader investigation. This
is a specific authorization to investigate only the matters set
forth in the resolution but it includes the activites of F» F. C.
which are extensive. I am in sympathy with what the gentleman from
Mississippi says, but I would suggest an additional resolution, to
investigate a much broader field, and by an entirely different com¬
mittee. There is ample work for two committees to perform if
freedom of speech and our free institutions are to be preserved.”
”1 would suggest that insofar as the alleged monopolistic
practices in radio are concerned, very extensive hearings were had
of that whole matter by the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee
in the last Congress”, said Representative Halleck (R. ), of Indiana.
’’While no bill was reported, the hearings are very complete. I
would not undertake to speak for the committee, but I have no doubt
that in due time that particular thing to which the gentleman from
Mississippi has referred will be under consideration by the proper
legislative committee.
"And let me say to the gentleman from Indiana”, Mr. Rankin
interjected, ’’that there are certain propagandists now broadcasting
that have for their object the destruction of the Congress of the
United States, ”
To which Mr. Fish replied, ’’And I am in accord with that
statement. There has been a continuous and communistic or radically
inspired program to attack and discredit Congress for the purpose of
destroying representative and constitutional government. ”
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"I do not think we oUght to wait on this snail-progressing
committee, the Committee ori Interstate and Foreign Commerce", Repre¬
sentative Rankin said*
"I am in accord with that. I think the gentleman from
Alabama ought to stand on the merits of their own resolution", Mr.
Fish replied. "From my point of view there is a great deal of
merit to their proposed resolution, and it should have been pre¬
sented to the Rules Committee - and I hope it will be in the near
future - in order to protect the Members of this House, as well
as the House itself, against constant abuse and vilification over
the radio seeking to undermine the confidence of the American people
in their elected Representatives and republican form of government. "
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HOUSE APPARENTLY STRONGLY BEHIND COX
Conversations with both Democrat and Republican repre¬
sentatives indicate that the House is backing Representative Cox,
of Georgia, in his investigation of the Federal Communications Com¬
mission and Chairman ^ly. It is apparently looked upon by them as
the first attack by Congress upon the so-called "bureaucrats".
Many other commissions and bureaus no doubt will be investigated
but the FCC being the first over the barrel is apt to receive the
worst paddling.
"I don't know what the shooting is all about", a Republi¬
can member said to this writer. "I am not interested in radio one
way or another but I do know that on both sides of the aisle there
is a tremendous desire to get at some of these New Deal Commissions
which have been exceeding their power. I can say the boys were
all talking about Cox's speech attacking Chairman FLy and the FCC*
I can also say, though Cox is anti-Adminlstration, he does have the
confidence of a large number of his colleagues regardless of their
politics and I believe he will have their backing. He is not a
man to go off the deep end and usually finishes what he starts. "
As to the charges the FCC has made against Representative
Cox, the broadcasting industry is pretty familiar. "If Cox were
guilty of these charges," a high communications official remarked
to this writer, "I don' t believe he would have let out such a loud
yell, "
Evidently Mr. Cox succeeded in convincing his colleagues
that the FCC charges were untrue.
"I think if every Member of the House, whether Republican
or Democrat, had heard the statement Mr. Cox made to us in the
Rules Committee", Representative Fisn declared, the day the Cox
resolution was almost unanimously passed, "he would have favored
reporting the resolution and will probably support it on final
passage. "
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Anybody who has talked with Representative Cox gets the
impression that Chairman Fly is in for the fight of his life. Mr.
Cox apparently is particularly gunning for Mr. Fly, Commissioner
Clifford Durr, a bro ther- in-law of Mr. Justice Black, and "little"
Paul Walker, as he calls him. It was also indicated that Prof,
Goodwin Watson, alleged Red, who already has had a stormy time of
it in Congress, may likewise come in for a.nother drubbing. However,
the chief target will be Mr. Ply, of whom Representative Cox told
the House:
"I say to you that of all the bureaucrats who have sought
to smear Congress this man Fly is the worst. His pursuit of me
has been nothing but blackmail. When he was down here in the
Tennessee Valley Authority a cell of the Communist Party which was
referred to as the best unit of the entire organization was set
up in the Authority; and there are other things I might tell you.
His whole outfit now is a nest of Reds. This man Dodd, who opposed
Howard Smith four years ago, is there; so is the man who wrote the
statement that Congress was the joke of the century; he is still
there, this man Dodd who said to his draft board over in Virginia
about 5 weeks ago that he was going to South Africa, but applied
to the State Department for a passport to England was denied a pass¬
port because of his communistic affiliations, he is down there now.
This Commission as run by Fly is the nastiest net of rats to be
found in this entire country. "
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DIFFERENCES SEEN IN HOUSE AND SENATE MERGER BILLS
The telegraph merger bill as reported by the Senate Inter¬
state Commerce Committee, is in the same form as the bill reported
by that Committee in the last Congress. It provides for a merger
of the telegraph companies in the domestic field but not the radio
and cable companies in the international field.
It will be remembered that the bill as originally intro¬
duced in the Senate in the last session of Congress provided for an
international merger as well as domestic and most of the witnesses
at the hearing approved the bill as introduced, with minor modifica¬
tions.
However, Rear Admiral S. C. Hooper, when ne testified
before the Committee, recommended something entirely different,
namely that the radio companies be permitted to merge, both in the
international and tne domestic field, and that the wire companies,
both domestic and cable, be permitted to merge, so that the result
would have been two companies, one radio and one wire, competing
against each other both in the domestic and the foreign field.
The Senate Committee did not adopt Admiral Hooper’s
recommendation for a merger of this sort but it did change the bill
so as to eliminate the merger in the international field, apparently
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on the basis of the arguments advanced by Admiral Hooper about the
danger of the international radio services being smothered by the
older cable services if the cables and radio were allowed to unite
in one company for international service. The Senate Committee
made it mandatory that the new domestic merger divest itself of
all its cable interests.
The resulting bill was not satisfactory to either the
domestic or the international interests and at the later hearing
before the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
several witnesses strongly recommended that authority for a permis¬
sive merger in the international field be reinserted in the bill.
The House Committee therefore amended the bill to include
permissive mergers in the international field as well as the domes¬
tic, but they considerably weakened the wording of the Senate bill
by removing the mandatory provision of the Senate bill that the
domestic merger must divest itself of all its international circuits.
This was done, the Committee stated, because Western Union testified
that its contracts with the British interests for cable service
still had many years to run and could not be broken.
Assuming that the House Committee will again recommend
the passage of the bill in substantially the same form as that in
which it was reintroduced in the House this session, it will be
seen that there are vital differences between the two bills which
would have to be adjusted In conference between the Senate and the
House before the legislation could be enacted.
The principal pressure for the merger legislation results
from the financial condition of the Postal Telegraph Company which
is said to be only in existence today as the result of loans aggreg¬
ating many millions of dollars from the R. F. C. If these loans had
not been made, the merger legislation would be unnecessary because
there would only be one company today in the domestic field. Some¬
what the same situation prevails In the international field. While
the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission strongly
advocated both before the Senate and the House Committees, the nec¬
essity for a merger in the international field, the present multi¬
plicity of companies in the internat ional field results from the
continued insistance of the Federal Communications Commission on
the necessity for competition. Here both the Department of Justice
and the FCC are charged with having brought about a condition which
they now recommend should be cured by legislation.
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W. W. Chardin, veteran foreign and war correspondent, now
an NBC news commentator, has signed a contract with D, Appleton-
Century Co. , for a book which will bear the working title ”Maginot
to Moscow”. In the book, Mr. Chaplin will describe conditions on all
the fronts he has visited since the war began.
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CIVIL AIR PATROL STATIONS ESTABLISHED BY FCC
The Federal Communications Commission has modified its
Rules and Regulations, pertaining to emergency radio services, to
establish a new class of stations, designated ’’Civil Air Patrol
Stations”. A Civil Air Patrol Station is defined by the Commission
as a radio station used exclusively for essential communications
relating directly to the activities of the Civil Air Patrol, except
when the use of such a station is under military control. Under
the modified rules, Civil Air Patrol Stations may be used only dur¬
ing emergencies when life, public safety, or important property are
endangered; or for essential communication directly relating to
Civil Air Patrol activities, when other communication facilities do
not exist or are inadequate.
The Civil Air Patrol is an organization established by
the Director of the U. S. Office of Civilian Defense pursuant to
Executive Order No. 8757, as amended. Its national headquarters
are in Washington, D. C. Through voluntary membershio in the
various state wings of the Civil Air Patrol, citizens of the United
States may apply their knowledge of aviation to the furtherance of
the war effort. Under supervision of the respective Wing Commander
in each State, the organization provides forest patrol, courier ser¬
vice, disaster relief, rescue missions, and trains aircraft and
ground personnel.
Operation of aircraft and ground radio stations on the
ultra-high frequencies now available for War Emergency Radio Service
will provide, it is believed, an adequate system of voice communica¬
tion which will substantially improve the effectiveness of the
Civil Air Patrol. These stations, under the rules, may employ radio
telegraphy but this requires a knowledge of the International Morse
Code and its use is somewhat limited for that reason. Communication
witn civilian defense, state guard, forestry, police, special emer¬
gency, and marine fire stations will be permitted under certain
limitations when such communication is necessary relative to emer¬
gencies endangering life or public safety.
Provision is made to license all Civil Air Patrol stations
within a state in the name of the Wing Commander, with the accompany
ing requirement that a formally designated ’’Communications Officer”
will direct and supervise the actual operation of the stations for
which the Wing Commander is the responsible licensee. Those who
hold a War Emergency Radio Operator Permit are authorized to oper¬
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WOULD TRY "BENEDICT ARNOLD" BROADCASTERS
An amendment to the Articles of War has been offered by
Representative Emanuel Celler (D. ), of New York, whereby the Presi¬
dent would be empowered to try the Americans who are now broadcast¬
ing to this country for the Nazis and Fascists.
Mr. Celler said;
"There emanates nightly from Germany and Italy short-wave
broadcasts by Nazi and Fascist radio broadcasters who unfortunately
are Americans. These traitors are Constance Drexel, Fred Kalten-
bach, Douglas Chandler, Jane Anderson, Ezra Pound and Robert H.
Best. Douglas Chandler broadcasts under the pseudonym of ’Paul
Revere*. Fred Kaltenbach broadcasts under the salutation of ’Dear
Harry*. Constance Drexel entitles her traitorous utterances as
’News from Germany*. Robert H. Best uses the alias ’Guess Who'.
He also urges Americans to write to their Congressmen to impeach
Roosevelt. Jane Anderson apparently broadcasts from Italy and is
introduced usually as a famous orator, Ezra Pound opens hie damn¬
able talk with a sort of verbal Fascist salute.
"The Constitution, by article 3, section 3, says that
treason, among other things, consists in adhering to our enemies and
giving them aid and comfort. Beyond doubt, these modern radio
Benedict Arnolds are daily giving aid and comfort to our enemies by
attempting to lessen our confidence in our Government and in the
cause for which we fight.
"It may be that they cannot be brought to book, especially
in absentia, by Jury trial, because the sixth amendment to the
Constitution provides that in all criminal prosecutions the accused
snail enjoy the right to a speedy trial by an impartial jury and
snail be confronted with witnesses. Such confrontation includes
the right to cross-examine. Thus, trial by jury may be Impossible
and, therefore, civil prosecution may be barred,
"I, therefore, have this day offered a resolution to pro¬
vide for amending article 38 of the Articles of War, whereby the
President will be empowered to set up military tribunals or commis¬
sions, to try these culprits, even In absentia.
"Thus far in this war, these six knaves are the only known
cases of American traitors on foreign soil. While trials In absentia
are a bit strange to us, they are of everyday occurrence In conti¬
nental Europe. I am bold enough to suggest such a procedure only
because without It, we would be helpless. It would be ridiculous
to let these curs go unwhipped of justice now. "
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BROADCASTERS BENEFIT BY $50,000,000 A.T.& T„ CUT
Broadcasters and newspapers will benefit substantially
from the $50,700,000 a year American Telephone and Telegraph Com¬
pany’s long line rate reduction which are equivalent to approxi¬
mately 25 percent in private telephone lines and 35 percent in
private telegraph lines. The small broadcasting stations, as the
casual users of telephone lines, will benefit from a lowering of
the initial rate per hour for line costs by approximately 50 percent.
Larger broadcast users will benefit by a reduction from $8 to $6
per air line mile.
Further hearings have been cancelled and upon filing of
the appropriate tariffs the proceedings will be dismissed.
Following the hearings which took place in the Commis¬
sion’s offices on December 16 and 17, representatives of the
Telephone Company and the Commissioners presiding (Commissioners
Paul A, Walker, Ray C. Wakefield, and Clifford J. Durr) conferred
with the objective of obtaining a satisfactory settlement.
Commenting upon the rate cut, James L. Fly, Chairman of
the FCC said:
’’The Importance of the extension of the great benefits
of network broadcasting to the small and remote radio stations of
this country can hardly be over- emphasized; they are an essential
part of our modern system of mass communication and every effort
ougnt to be made to preserve these small stations and to improve
the service they are rendering to the public. I think, too, the
benefits to the press of the Nation and to the Nation, itself, in
making more economical the free flow of news and information is of
real significance,
"It may be true that this is not an ideal settlement of an
important and intricate problem; however, under all of the circum¬
stances, at this crucial juncture, I cannot but feel that it is
over all a wholesome settlement and represents very constructive
gain from the public point of view. "
Walter S. Gifford, President of the A. T. & T. , said;
"It will be noted that no reductions in basic message
rates are to be made and that the reductions agreed to were those
least apt, through stimulation of business, to add a further burden
to the already overloaded long-distance lines.
"The extraordinary volume of long-distance business and
the overloaded condition of the long-lines plant have resulted, in
all probability only temporarily, in a rate of earnings for the long-
lines department of the company which is in excess of the average
for the Bell Telephone System as a whole.
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h The reductions In rates were p greed to by the company
because of the position of the Commission, which the company believes
Is unsound under present conditions but which the Commission con¬
sidered is within its discretion; and because the comoany felt it
important to have the rate proceedings discontinued so that it could
get on with the business of helping win the war. ”
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ADMIRAL HOOPER, INTERNATIONAL RADIO EXPERT, RETIRES
Although he remains in the service as a general consult¬
ant, Rear Admiral S. C. Hooper, noted radio authority, has been
placed on the retired list. Several months ago. Secretary Knox
ordered that all officers over the age of 58 (Admiral Hooper is 59)
be given special physical examinations to assure that the men hold¬
ing top Jobs be fully capable of the strain of modern war.
In addition to being one of the Navy 1 e foremost radio
experts, Admiral Hooper served temporarily as the Chief Engineer of
the Federal Radio Commission. Also he was one of those responsible
for the organization of the Radio Corporation of America.
As told by Messrs. Herring and Cross in their book "Tele¬
communications ", it was in 1919 when the General Electric was
about to sell certain American patents to the British Marconi
Company :
“Negotiations were about concluded, when officers of the
General Electric Company were visited by Rear Admiral William H. G.
Bullard, Director of Naval Communications , and Com. S. C, Hooper,
of the Bureau of Engineering of the Navy Department. It was point¬
ed out by these two men that the Alexanderson alternator and its
accessories had been demonstrated to be the best system then in
existence for reliable transoceanic radio service and that if the
General Electric Company should sell these devices to the Marconi
interests, it would result in a British monopoly of world-wide com¬
munication for an indefinite future. The officers of the General
Electric Company pointed out, however, that it was the business of
this company to develop and sell electrical apparatus and that the
principal customers for the alternators were the Marconi companies.
Nevertheless, following these conferences with Rear Admiral Bullard
and Commander Hooper, the General Electric Company ceased negotia¬
tions with the British Marconi Company and proceeded to develop
plans for the establishment of a new radio company for the exploita¬
tion of these patents, controlled wholly by American interests. * *
On Oct, 17, 1919, the General Electric Company caused to be organized
the Radio Corporation of America; and on Nov. 20, 1919, the new cor¬
poration entered into an agreement with the American Marconi Company
whereby the latter transferred to the Radio Corooration all its
tangible physical assets and, in addition, certain valuable patents.
On tne same date, the Radio Corporation entered into a contract with
the General Electric Company whereby in addition to securing rights
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under the patents owned or controlled by the General Electric Com¬
pany , the latter company agreed to manufacture radio equipment
exclusively for the Radio Corporation, and the Radio Corporation
agreed to purchase from the General Electric Company exclusively
all radio apparatus and devices required by it. As a result of
these agreements, the Radio Corporation obtained control of practi¬
cally all the high-power radio stations in the United States, to¬
gether with a number of Important radio patents.
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QUESTIONS PETRILLO* S RIGHT TO SUPPRESS ANYTHING
Captioned "Petrillo *s Progress ", the Washington Post car¬
ried this editorial?
"Some time ago we suggested that about all that was neces¬
sary in the case of Mr. Jimmy Petrillo was to let him have all the
rope he wanted - which, of course, was a good deal more than a wiser
man would have thought of asking for. It appears that we were right.
Mr, Petrillo* s enemies are still as numerous, but still as timorous,
as ever. Nobody yet has actually and openly challenged his right
to suppress anything that he feels like suppressing. But in the
course of his recent testimony before the Senate subcommittee, Mr.
Petrillo made several damaging admissions. He admitted, for one
thing, that his motives were neither so pure nor so lofty as they
have been made out. All this business, for instance, about * tech¬
nological unemployment*, union musicians being driven to breadlines
and poorhouses by soulless mechanical contrivances like Jukeboxes,
and all that, was so much raullarkey.
"Of course, Mr. Petrillo is down on Jukeboxes and phono-
grapn records, as such. All he wanted was simply a larger cut in
the profits for the musicians employed in the bands which make these
records. The point here is not so much that the boys who are hot
enougn to play with these bands rarely lack employment, but that they
comprise a decided minority of the membership of Mr. Petrillo *s
union. How that will go down with the smaller dues-paying fry who
have been fondly looking forward to regular evening engagements at
Nick the Greek* s and regular lunchtime engagements at Ye Olde Eat
Shoppe, we don* t know, but we have a vague idea it won3t go down so
well.
"Possibly, Mr. Petrillo may brazen himself out of that one
when he is next called upon to face the A, F. of M. convention. But,
in his testimony on Wednesday, he made an admission far more serious.
Speaking about a contract in Chicago under which a union musician
was paid $90 a week for turning over records on a phonograph, Mr.
Petrillo said, *In that case I made a mistake. * Mr. Petrillo must
have felt like biting off his tongue after such an admission. It is
bad enough when a dictator admits, as Mr. Petrillo did, that he is
not an angel, but when he' confesses a mistake - that is well nigh
fatal. No wonder he is now ready and even eager to negotiate with
almost anybody about anything. ”
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i : TRADE NOTES \ \
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Senator Clark, of Idaho, submitted the following resolution
( S. Res. 81) last Thursday to continue the Petrillo investigation:
"Resolved, That the authority conferred by Senate Resolu¬
tion 286, Seventy-seventh Congress, agreed to September 24, 1942
(authorizing an investigation of the action of the American Federa¬
tion of Musicians in denying Its members the right to play or con¬
tract for recordings or other forms of mechanical reproduction of
music), is hereby continued until the end of the Seventy-eighth
Congress.
Norman Paul and Francis Forrest have Joined the staff of
the CB3 Publicity Department in New York.
The Radio Corporation of America has consolidated its out¬
standing loans for war work into a single $75,000,000 Federal Reserve
Regulation V loan, it has been disclosed in a report filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. RCA and its subsidiary, the RCA
Manufacturing Company, had outstanding $15,000,000 in bank loans and
a $60,000,000 V loan. On Dec. 30, however, RCA and RCA Manufacturing
were consolidated into a single operating organization at which time
the bank loans were paid and an over-all $75,000,000 V loan was
arrange d.
Sparks- Wit hi ngt on Company - Six months to Dec. 31: Con¬
solidated net profit after $1,497,425 provision for United States
and Canadian Income taxe6 was $392,406, or 42 cents a common share,
against $295,680, or 31 cents a common share, for final half of 1941.
W3XAD and W3XEP , RCA Manufacturing Co. , Inc, , Camden, N.J. ,
have been granted authority to cancel construction permit and close
the records of the Commission with respect to these televlsion(exper. )
stations and cancel license and delete call signal.
Ralph J. Gleason, for the last year Trade News Editor of
the Columbia Broadcasting System, leaves CBS January 25 to join the
Office of War Information, Overseas Branch, as a Field Renresentative.
Robert W. Friedheim, Fastern Sales Manager, N3Cfs Radio-
Recording Division, has been appointed business manager of the
Division, C. Lloyd Egner, NBC Vice-President in Charge of Radio-
Recording announced this week. Mr. Friedheim has been acting Business
Manager since May, 1942.
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2400 CALIFORNIA STREET
Letter
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Ei 8U/LUN
INDEX TO ISSUE OF JANUARY 26, 1943
Sparkman Still Hopes FCC Probe May Include Industry . . . 1
A. T. & T. Gut Big Break For Fly In FCC Probe. „ . 3
Lewis Goes Step Higher At OWI . . .
Editor Contends Householders Turn Off Commercials
Civilian Radio Replacement Program Nearing Completion
Chicago Court To Hear New Petrilio Petition .
New Congress Elects Committee Members . . .
Broadcast Brings 20,000 Replies; They Still Come .
Senate Votes Wire Merger - 70 To 10.. .
Radiothermics Hailed As New Field.. . . .
Carter, Chicago Radio Parts Manufacturer, Dead .
Trade Notes . . . . . 10
New Printing Of Syl vania’s Radio Technicians Manual . 11
CBS Reveals Post-War Planning Project . 11
No. 1498
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January 26, 1943
SPARKMAN STILL HOPES FCC PROBE MAY INCLUDE INDUSTRY
Representative John J, Sparkman (D, ) , of Alabama, still
believes that the broadcasting industry should be investigated as
well as the Federal Communications Commission. Prior to the passage
of the Cox measure to investigate the Commission, Mr, Sparkman intro¬
duced a resolution to broaden the resolution of Representative E, E.
Cox ( D. ) , of Georgia, so as to include the entire industry.
"I shall continue to insist that this be done", said
Representative Sparkman last Monday. "I have talked with Mr. Cox
about it. I told him in view of the passage of his resolution I
did not care to set up a separate committee but that I did feel that
the radio industry likewise should have attention at this time.
"Mr. Cox said after he' got his committee organized he might
agree to ask for authorization to broaden its scope to include the
industry. If he will agree to that, it suits me. If not, I intend
to press forward the passage of my resolution. "
During the debate in the House, Representative Voorhis ( D) ,
of California, Representative Rankin ( D) , of Mississippi, and Repre¬
sentative Fish ( R) , of New York, also favored an investigation of
the broadcasters as well as the FCC. Mr, Fish, however, believed
a different committee should do it. In some quarters, Reoresentatl ve
Sparkman in pressing for an investigation of the industry at the same
time as the FCC was charged "in a move that obviously had its origin
within the FCC" with trying to head off the Cox investigation and
with endeavoring to keep the full force of it hitting the Commission.
However that may be and in view of the fact that Mr.
Sparkman seems to be very much in earnest about his resolution,
whicn was pretty much lost in the excitement of the passage of the
Cox resolution, it might be well to examine the proposed Sparkman
measure (H. Res. No. 25), and see just what he has in mind. It is
lengthy and reads, in part:
"Whereas the public owns all radio frequencies and the
granting by the Government of qua si«monopoli stic licenses to private
persons is of vital interest to the public and it is essential for
freedom of speech and public discussion, the free and un trammeled
flow of information and opinion, the encouragement of education and
social progress, and the maintenance of public morality and demo¬
cratic institutions ~
"That radio broadcasting and the sources of program mater¬
ial and talent be free of any monopoly, monopolistic practice, or
undue concentration of control;
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"That small, independent radio stations be able to con¬
tinue in operation in order to serve their communities;
"That the control of any station or network of stations
should not be exercised to advance the special interests of any
persons, group, or business or in any other manner than in the
public interest and in the interest of its listeners;
"That the facilities of any station or network should be
made available to all persons upon a fair basis and without improper
discrimination; and that programs should be free from vulgarity,
scurrility, vilification, or other debasing content: Therefore be it
"Resolved, That there is created a select committee to be
composed of five members of the House to be appointed by the Speaker,
one of whom he shall designate as chairman. Any vacancy occurring
in the membership of the committee shall be filled in the same manner
in which the original appointment was made.
"The committee is authorized and directed to make a thor¬
ough and full study and investigation of the Federal Communications
Commission, the broadcasting industry and of any business related
thereto or connected therewith, including, but not limited to, the
following matters:
"(1) The organization, personnel, and activities of the
Federal Communications Commission with a view to determining whether
or not such Commission in its organization, in the selection of per¬
sonnel, and in the conduct of its activities, has been, and is, act¬
ing in accordance with law and the public interest,
"(2) The existence, extent, formation, legality, and
effect upon the public of any monopoly, monopolistic practice, or
undue concentration of ownership, control, or management in the
hands of a person or group of persons in radio broadcasting or any
pnase thereof, or in the recording and transcription industry, the
management of artists, or any other source of program material and
talent ;
"(3) The existence and extent of conditions endangering
the continued operation of small, independent broadcasting stations,
especially in outlying areas of the country, and the effect upon
the public of the cessation of operation of such stations;
"(4) The extent to which radio stations or networks cen¬
sor or decline to accept programs offered to them, the reasons
therefor and effect upon the public thereof, including programs con¬
cerning public or controversial issues and programs offered by or in
behalf of any legally qualified candidate for election to any public
office or for nomination in any political primary; and
"(5) The quality of program service of radio stations,
especially the extent to which programs contain vulgar, scurrilous,
vilifying, or other debasing material. "
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A. T, & T. CUT BIG BREAK FOR FLY IN FCC PROBE
The $50,000,000 rate cut by which the broadcasting in¬
dustry profits to the extent of $2,000,000 which the vqc forced
the A. T. & T. Long Lines to make, may prove a break for Chairman
James L. Fly in the going over Represen tat ive Cox and Congress is
to give him. Although Walter S. Gifford, President of the American
Telephone and Telegraph Company declared the reduction was made
"because of the position of the Commission which the Teleohone
Company believes is unsound but which the Commission considers is
within its discretion", Representative Jerry Voorhis (D) , of Cali¬
fornia, takes a much different view of It. Said Mr. Voorhis address¬
ing the House:
"I wish to draw the attention of the membership to the
reducation of nearly $50,000,000 per year in telephone rates which
has been brought about by certain action of the Federal Communica¬
tions Commission,
"I hope earnestly that the committee set up to investigate
this body will sift thoroughly any charges that have been made
against the Commission. But I also believe the committee should
carefully consider the problems with which the Commission is suppos¬
ed to deal and should take proper account of the benefits that can
accrue to the people from proper, constructive, and courageous action
by it.
"These things have not happened, but, on the other hand,
as a result of the action by FCC, a settlement was reached in a very
snort time with the company. There was no tie-up of manpower and no
deterioration in service as prophesied. Telephone service has not
and will not suffer, but the rate payers and taxpayers of this
country will be saved a minimum of $34,000,000 per annum and probably
more than $50,000,000 per annum, depending upon the action taken by
the State regulatory authorities with reference to additional pay¬
ments which will be made by A. T. & T. to independent and associated
companies to reimburse them properly for their part of the cost of
rendering long-distance services. The saving effected is, of course,
many times the annual appropriation to the wcc for all of its activ¬
ities.
"It is to be hoped that the investigation of the Federal
Communications Commission recently authorized by the House will not
only go Into charges that have been made against the Commission but
will also consider the broader -problems connected with the proper
and effective carrying on of its work."
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LEWIS G-OES STEP HIGHER AT OWI
William B. Lewis, Chief of the Domestic Radio Bureau of
the Office of War Information, has been named an Assistant Director
of the Domestic Branch in charge of plans and production, Gardner
Dowles, Jr. , Domestic Director, has announced.
To assist him in the planning function, the Bureau of
Campaigns will become a division in Mr. Lewis' office with Drew
Dudley as chief. Mr. Dudley has been Assistant Chief of the
Campaigns Bureau.
James Allen continues as Assistant Director of the Domestic
Branch of OWI with full authority under Mr. Cowles except for the
duties specifically assigned to Mr. Lewis, who was formerly a Vice-
President of the Columbia Broadcasting System in New York. Mr,
Cowles, head of the Iowa Broadcasting Company of Des Moines and of
the famous publishing family, is on leave for the duration,
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EDITOR CONTENDS HOUSEHOLDERS TURN OFF COMMERCIALS
D. W. Grandin, a veteran Illinois editor, writes the
Editor & Publisher as follows:
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"I am glad that the radio has overtaken Clare Marshall,
editorial director for the Cedar Raolds (Iowa) Gaze tte . Years ago
as a member of the Inland Daily Press Association in Chicago, I
repeatedly warned the Association that the newspapers were building
up the radio at the exDense of the press. In our two dailies, the
Daily Gazette of Sterling, and the Daily Post Tribune of LaSalle;
and my son, Preston, have not orinted a radio program in years, yet
hundreds of newspapers in the United States give the radio programs
every day from one to several columns of free space for advertising
their programs.
"I have been 70 years in newspaper work and am one of the
oldest newspaper men in the country. I have spent 50 years of that
time in daily newspaper work and urgently urge every daily newspaper
man in the country to stop printing radio programs free. If Mr.
Marshall can accomplish that he will place America’s newspapers on
a re a ny paying basis. Printing the programs free for radio is the
most foolish thing the newspapers of the country are doing. I am
glad Clare Marshall, who is really a leading man in the newspaper
business, has learned that something is wrong although his remedy
will not even touch a solution of the problem.
"Neither do I believe that the radio broadcasts have half
as mucn circulation as the stations claim. When the commercial pro¬
grams go on householders turn off the radio in most cases, 11
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CIVILIAN RADIO REPLACEMENT PROGRAM NEARING COMPLETION
The WPB program for production of civilian replacement
tubes and parts is nearing completion by Chief Frank H. McIntosh
and staff of the Domestic and Foreign Radio Section, WPB Radio and
Radar Division, according to an RMA bulletin.
There will be "Victory” tubes and parts of the types
largely needed for maintenance and repair of radios in public use.
The tube program will be authorized first, because of the present
snortage and also the time-lag in production, with a proposed
authorized program of about eleven million tubes during the current,
first quarter of 1943. The WPB order is now being drafted to assign
production quotas to various tube manufacturers, covering about 117
proposed types, but production of other important types will also be
authorized, within a range of a total probably of 150 types.
A tentative "Victory" list of replacement parts also has
been completed by the WPB parts standardization committee, the War
Radio Committee headed by Dr. 0. H. Caldwell of New York. Standards
for these parts types are being developed and, later, OPA will estab¬
lish price ceilings. Still under consideration are the types for
wire wound resistors, ballast tubes, and resistance wire.
The WPB "Victory" replacement and repair program contem¬
plates a requirement for purchasers to turn in a used tube when
securing a new tube, and also all possible repair of replacement
parts. Also contemplated is a new procedure for distribution of
replacement tubes and parts through distributors, dealers, and
servicemen, to dispense with PD-1X applications of distributors.
The "Victory" replacement components will bear a "Victory" label,
but manufacturers will be permitted to imprint their own identifica¬
tion numeral symbols.
Radio set owners probably will be required to turn in an
old tube or part when buying a new one, but there will be a simpli¬
fied system for the trade to secure new replacement components from
manufacturers. A limitation or "L" order will restrict future
replacement parts production to the "Victory" types of authorized
parts, but there will not be such rigid restriction of tube types.
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Instruments for measuring, testing, recording and indicat¬
ing and other precision devices, which are motivated by electricity
but do not measure electrical quantity, were formally placed under
&he machinery regulation by the Office of Price Administration. OPA
pointed out that these instruments had been considered as covered by
the regulation. However, as some confusion has prevailed an express
category has been added throgh Amendment No. 67 to Maximum Price
Regulation No. 136 as amended (Machines and Parts and Machinery
Services) effective January 27.
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CHICAGO COURT TO HEAR NEW PETRILLO PETITION
Closely following Thurman Arnold, Assistant Attorney
General> carrying to the Supreme Court his attempt to restrain James
C. Petrillo, President of the American Federation of Musicians and
the Union from enforcing a ban against making recordings, Federal
Judge John P. Barnes in Chicago agreed to consider the merits of the
Government's new petition for an injunction to restrain President
James C. Petrillo and his American Federation of Musicians from en¬
forcing their ban on making records for oublic purposes.
The jurist, who dismissed the Government's first petition
last October on grounds that the matter eseentially was a labor dis¬
pute that did not come under the anti- trust laws, stated he was con¬
tent with his original decision, but added:
"However, the new complaint does make some allegations
that give me pause. "
He referred to the Government' s new contention that the
union ban was destroying independent radio stations which depended
entirely on recordings and which operate In areas where no live
musicians are available.
Assistant Attorney General Arnold in taking the case to
the Supreme Court sought a review of the dismissal of his complaint
by the Federal District Court at Chicago.
At the same time, Joseph A. Padway, Federation attorney,
asked the Supreme Court to affirm the decision of the District Court,
which he said was "clearly without error".
One point in the litigation, Mr. Arnold asserted, was
"wnether a union may use organized coercion to eliminate competing
businesses" and thus "ultimately deprive the publics of a. means of
recreation hitherto available at small cost".
The District Court dismissed the case on the grounds that
it involved a labor disoute concerning terms and conditions of employ¬
ment and that an injunction under such circumstances was barred by
Federal legislation.
The American Federation of Musicians last week ordered all
remote dance band pickuos off CBS and the Blue network, which filled
the vacancies in their program schedules with a variety of studio
programs and, on the BLUE, with some recorded programs. The move
was made by the national AFM to speed a settlement of a dispute,
between the Pittsburgh local of the union and WJAS and KQ.V , affili¬
ates of CBS and the BLUE respectively, in that city.
According to Broadcasting Magazine, Mark Woods, President
of the BLUE, described that network as the "Innocent but injured
party in the current ban against broadcasting of dance bands from
remote pickup points issued by the AM". Pointing out that the
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dispute is a local one to which the BLUE is not a party, "the net¬
work as a matter of fact is employing musicians under terms complete¬
ly agreeable to the union. " Mr. Woods said: "Not only is the net«-
work penalized by conditions beyond its control, but 145 independent
American broadcasting stations, affiliated with the BLUE network are
also penalized because one BLUE affiliate has differences with the
musicians organization. "
Recordings of the newest popular tunes are being made by
"bootleg bands" in defiance of the ban by James C. Petrillo, Presi¬
dent of the American Federation of Musicians, and are receiving wide
distribution through department stores, the New York Times reports.
The latest "underground release", as Tin Pan Alley termed it, is a
record of two hit songs from a Broadway musical comedy that opened
January 7.
Fictional names such as "Peter Pioer", "Hal Goodman" and
"Johnny Jones" are used to identify the leaders of the bands, which
for the most part are small units.
The distributor of the records was revea?.ed as Eli E.
Oberstein, head of the Classic Record Comoany, Inc,, 2 West 46th
Street.
"All I do is buy master recordings and then make copies",
said Mr. Oberstein, who for twelve years was an executive of RCA
Victor. "I really don’t know where they get them. Perhaps some
come from the Middle West or Mexico. "
He was equally non-commltal , however, on the identity of
those who might bring him the "masters".
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NEW CONGRESS ELECTS CO MICE T TEE MEMBERS
The following have been elected to membership on the House
Merchant Marine and Fisheries, the group which passes on most of the
radio legislation in the lower branch of Congress: Louis J. Capoz-
zoll, New York; Cecil R. King, California; Anthony J. Dimond, Alaska.
Members elected in the new Congress to the House Patents
Committee are: Frank W. Boykin, Chairman, Alabama; Fritz G, Lanham,
Texas; Charles A. Buckley, New York; Joe B„ Bates, Kentucky; Arthur
G. Klein, New York; Edward J. Hart, New Jersey; John S. Gibson,
Georgia; Cecil R. King, California; Henry D. Larcade, Jr., Louisiana;
Arthur Winstead, Mississippi; Grant Furlong, Pennsylvania; William A.
Rowan, Illinois.
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1/26/43
BROADCAST BRINGS 20,000 REPLIES; THEY STILL COME
Concrete evidence of the "pull" of radio wgs the experience
of Mrs. Dennis Mullane, a Staten Island housewife last Saturday night.
"Called to the microphone as the ‘mother of the youngest
serviceman in an audience attending the * Truth or Consequences’ pro¬
gram broadcast over WEAF from the National Broadcasting Comoany
studios, Ralph Edwards, master of ceremonies, put this poser to Mrs.
Mullane", the New York Times reports:
"'How many kings of England possessed the name Henry?'
•Mpive1, Mrs, Mullane reolied.
"'Ever hear of Henry the Eighth?’ As Mrs. Mullane flushed
and murmured, 'I should have known that’, Mr. Edwards asked the
radio listeners to send contributions of one cent to Mrs, Mullane fs
home for the purchase of a war bond for her son, Harold, 17-year-old
Marine.
"Hoping for a letter from her son yesterday, Mrs. Mullane
at 11 A. M. was watching for the postman at a front window of her
eight-room home. Instead of the regular mail carrier, four men
arrived from the main post office at St. George, each carrying a
sack of mail, which they deposited on her doorstep.
"Postmaster Bernard Sheeran, at St. George, estimated that
at least 20,000 letters had arrived at the post office for Mrs.
Mullane and said he would deliver them by truck.
"Late last night Mrs. Mullane still was opening letters
and piling money on the living room table. Most of the contribu¬
tions were in pennies but some radio listeners sent quarters, half-
dollars and even bills. "
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SENATE VOTES WIRE MERGER - 70 TO 10
The Senate pa ssed Monday , 70-10, a bill to permit merger
of the Postal Telegraph Co. and Western Union. The bill provides for
combining the telegraph companies in the domestic field but not the
radio and cable companies in the foreign field. The bill now goes to
the House, where a similar Senate-approved measure died last session
for lack of action.
Senators McFarland ( D. ) , of Arizona, and White ( R) , of
Maine said Postal was losing $300,000 a month and already owed the
Reconstruction Finance Coro, $9,000,000,
The Senate rejected 49-29, an amendment by Senator Taft(R),
of Ohio, to reduce from five to two years the oeriod for which the
consolidated company would be required to guarantee employment for
employees of the two concerns.
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1/26/43
RADIOTHERMICS HAILED AS NEW FIELD
Two new fields aside from communication in which the appli¬
cation of electronics is repeatedly coming to the fore, according to
a new booklet "Radio and Electronics", Just published by the
Department of Information of the Radio Corporation of America, are
radio frequency heating and supersonics.
"Both hold promise of speeding industrial processes and at
the same time increasing their efficiency and scope. Radio waves may
now be used to heat, dry, glue, stitch, anneal, weld and rivet, also
to deactivate enzymes. Tnis new field is known as thermal radio. It
processes a laminated airplane propeller in minutes compared to hours
required by ordinary heat and pressure methods. Radio high-frequency
•furnaces’ are a post-war prospect, and in them railroad ties can be
seasoned quickly and ’cakes’ of textiles dried uniformly. Even rub¬
ber may be radio ’cemented’ to wood or plastic; cloth stitched and
seamed by radio heat, metals hardened, plywood glued and fresh veget¬
ables deactivated without loss of flavor or color. The possibilities
in this new thermic realm of radio are unlimited.
"Since radio and sound are so closely related, the research
men in radio are busy exploring the entire sound spectrum, including
supersonics, as a vast new field for expansion. Surprisingly, the
application of sonic vibrations to chemistry, metallurgy, medicine
and other fields has been sLow, but through radio research in RCA
Laboratories new interest is being awakened in this highly promising
field as various experiments indicate important possibilities. Radio
and electronics are supplying the necessary research tools to open
the sonic realm.
"Chemists naturally are interested in any new method that
will enhance chemical reactions and create new products. Supersonics,
according to scientists, may usher in a new age of chemistry. Radio
may be used as a catalytic agent, in which case the subject falls
entirely within the knowledge and experience of radio research men.
They have high-power modulators that will handle from 250 watts to 50
kilowatts and even higher. This particular field of research is
called ’ Cheroot ronics ’. "
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CARTER, CHICAGO RADIO PARTS MANUFACTURER, DEAD
Alva J. Carter, 60 years old, President of the Carter
Motor Company, inventor and a pioneer radio manufacturer and a founder
of the Radio Manufacturers' Association, died in Chicago Sunday,
at the Plaza Hotel, where he recently had been living.
He founded the Carter Radio Company in 1922, developing it
into one of the largest radio parts companies. In 1928 he developed
and demonstrated a new television system, using regular broadcast
wave lengths and transmit voice and picture simultaneously over a
broadcast band.
Mr. Carter was a member of the first RMA Governing Board
tnrough 1924-25 and served on the Association' s Board for several
years thereafter.
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Dr. Peter C. Goldmark, Chief Television Engineer of the
Columbia Broadcasting System, has been awarded the Medal of Honor of
the Institute of Radio Engineers, for his contributions to the
development of practical color television. The IRE medal is awarded
each year in recognition of distinguished service in radio communica¬
tion.
Forest L. Henderson, for the past 10 years Traffic Manager
of All America Cables and Radio, Inc., The Commercial Cable Company
and the Commercial Pacific Cable Company, associates of International
Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, was elected a Vice-President of
All America Cables and Radio, Inc. , at a meeting of the Board of
Directors held on January 21st. He will continue in his capacity
as traffic head for the three companies. He is a member of the
Cable Committee of the Board of War Communications, and acts as
liaison officer between the Board and the cable companies mentioned
above.
Melvin Sniegel is now in charge of the Trade News Division
of the CBS Publicity Department. He joined CBS in September, 1942
and prior to that he was Associate Editor of Movie- Radio Guide. He
formerly was radio editor of the New York Morning Telegraph. Mr.
Spiegel succeeds Ralph J. Gleason, who is Joining the Office of War
Information.
War Production Chief Donald M. Nelson has designated J. A.
Krug to have full authority over electricity, gas, water supplies
and communications. Mr. Krug, who once was Manager of Power for the
Tennessee Valley Authority and later head of the WPB Power Division,
will head a new Office of Power Director,
Baylor University, Corpus Christi, Texas, has applied for
a construction permit for a new broadcast station to be operated on
1010 kilocycles, 50 kilowatts, unlimited time, directional antenna
for day and night use, with transmitter site to be NE of Gregory, Tex.
Contents for Radio Age for January, published quarterly
by tne Department of Information of the Radio Corporation of America,
include: Sarnoff Lauds Radio's War Role, by Col. David Sarnoff;
RCA Victor Division, Unification of RCA, Manufacturing Subsidiary;
'43 To See Industrial Power in Full Force, by Lieut.. Gen. James Gf.
Harbord; Radiotherrnics Speeds Industry, by I. R. Baker; Radiomarine
Wins Army-Navy "E", Achievement in Manufacturing Radio Equipment;
Army Takes the Air, by William Burke Miller; Electron Microscope
Advances, New Desk-size Model Is Announced by RCA, Blue Trys New
Program Ideas, by Philips Carlin; 2 Honored by President, RCA Men
Receive WPB Awards at White House; Boston Symphony on Blue, Famed
Orchestra Starts Series on Network; Plant Wins rtE:' With Star, PCA
Victor Division, Camden, Gets Third Award.
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1/26/43
NEW PRINTING OF SYLVANIA' S RADIO TECHNICIANS MANUAL
A new printing of Sylvania's 5th edition of the Technical
Manual is now ready for distribution to Radio Technicians, Paul S.
Ellison advises. One section of the Technical Manual has been
devoted to listing all new types of tubes released since the previous
issue, and a section pertaining to panel lamps has also been added.
Plastic binding has been employed which allows the book to
lie flat and remain open at whatever page is to be consulted.
The general arrangement of the technical data of the re¬
printed Manual remains the same, and index tabs are still supplied,
glued and marked for easy installation on the Droper pages.
The new revised Technical Manual sells for the pre-war
price of 35<^ per copy, and may be secured from Syl vanla Distributors
or by ordering direct from Sulvania Electric Products, Inc. , Emporium,
Penna.
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CBS REVEALS POST-WAR PLANNING PROJECT
The Columbia Broadcasting System' s "Department X" - func¬
tioning for more than a year as a research unit of the network -
was revealed as the CBS "Post-War Division" of the Program Department.
William S. Paley, Columbia's President, said the purpose
of the Division is to present and clarify issues of post-war planning
and to make available broadcasting time for discussion of all perti¬
nent issues. Mr. Paley pointed out that while the nation is geared
for victory in war, considerable thought must be given now to the
equally important objective of winning the peace.
Lyman Bryson, Columbia's Director of Education and Chairman
of the network's Adult Education Board, Is in charge of the CBS Post-
War Division. He Is on leave of absence from his post as Professor
of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.
The CBS post-war research project was started on December
1, 1941, six days before Pearl Harbor.
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INDEX TO ISSUE OF JANUARY 29, 1943
Senator White Warns Against U. 3. Grabbing Radio . 1
Congressman Asks That "God's Time" Be Restored . 2
Radio Gets Another Big Break In F. D. R. ’ s Africa Hop . 3
Quiz Loser Reveals Radio's Amazing Pulling Power . 4
Radio Institute Convention By Radio Big Success.. . 5
Some Stations On Air In New Blackout Rules. . 5
More Committee Members Named By New Congress . 6
FCC Action . 6
Discusses Walter Winchell Along With Dog Legislation . .7
Rosenbaum Proposed Juke Box Tax Plan. . . . . 9
Trade Notes . 10
Radio To Be Included In Minimum Wage Action . 11
Gene Thomas Of WOR Announces Ad Club's Radio Clinic . 11
No. 1499
SENATOR WHITE WARNS AGAINST U.S. GRABBING RADIO
There was a significant warning by Senator Wallace
White (R), of Maine, the Senate’s communications authority, against
allowing the Government to get its foot in the door as a step towards
permanently taking over the country’s communications systems. This
came out in the debate on the bill which the Senate has Just passed
to merge the Western Union and the Postal.
"I think that if the Government of the United States were
to take over the Postal Telegraph Co. at this time”, Senator White
said, ’’and if it were to operate that company at this time and in
the future, the day would not be far distant when the Government of
the United States would be embarked in the field of communications,
and I think it would inevitably follow that it would in time operate
not only in the telegraph field, but would reach out into the field
of radio and would invade the field of the telephone, and that to me
would be a greater evil than any evil which inheres by any possibil¬
ity in the proposed legislation. ”
Leading up to this Senator White explained:
"We have in our country today various media of communica¬
tion, We have our air mail, we have our telephones, we have our
telegraphs, we have radio, all in competition one with the other. In
the fact of this competition, over late years the Postal Co. has
fallen upon unhappy days. It has undergone financial reorganization
but notwithstanding such financial readjustment of its affairs, the
Postal has been compelled again and again, and in constantly increas¬
ing degree, to call upon the Federal Government for assistance,
until today that company is indebted to the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation in a total of approximately $9,000,000. The subcommittee
which gave consideration to this problem were definitely warned that
the Reconstruction Finance Corporation had reached the end of its
liberality to tnis corporation,
"What were the alternatives, then, that we faced as a com¬
mittee? It seemed to me perfectly clear that one of two things was
bound to happen: Either the Postal Telegraph Co, must seek bank¬
ruptcy and go out of business, or the Federal Government would have
to take the company over. ”
As to the Government itself taking over the Postal, Senator
White said:
’’The Government has $9,000,000 already invested in the
company and its affairs. If it took over Postal, then we would see
the Government of the United States in the telegraph business, prob¬
ably operating through the Federal Communications Commission. Then
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we would find the1 Western Union faced by governmental competition in
the domestic telegrapn field. Then we would find our air mail in
competition with the Government in the field of communications here
in the United States. Tnen radio would face competition from a
governmentally owned and operated agency of communication. Then it
might well be that the telepnone system of this country would find
itself in competition with a governmental agency.”
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CONGRESSMAN ASKS THAT "GOD’S TIME ” BE RESTORED
Two resolutions which would affect every radio station
were introduced into the House to reinstate Standard Time in the
place of War Time. One was by Representative William C. Cole ( R) ,
of Missouri. The other was by Representative Walter E. Brehm ( R) ,
of Ohio, who declared he agreed with Mr. Cole 100$.
Said Representative Cole:
"Since July 20, 1942, our Nation has been on what is ref¬
erred to as wartime, disregarding God's time. This arrangement has
been tried for a full year, resulting in untold inconveniences and
hardships to the people of our great country, and with no material
contribution to our war effort, except to bring home to each and
every individual that we are at war - a fact that they all well
know,
"I have had complaints from all over my district - from
mothers of school children, farmers, business and professional men,
and individuals in all walks of life. Most of the complaints, how¬
ever, are from mothers in the rural sections of my district, to the
effect that at 7:30 a.ra. wartime, they are required to carry a
lantern and walk from one-half mile to 1 mile, in order to protect
their children while going to and waiting for a school bus*
It is my opinion that my concurrent resolution should be
speedily adopted, in order that God's time be restored to the
citizens of our great Nation. "
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A drive to secure skilled workers of twenty-five classes,
Including radio chassis assemblers, is being made by the War Man¬
power Commission. Metal work bench hands, press operators, internal
precision grinders, and milling and screw machine operators are
other workers sought in the special recruiting campaign, which will
include radio, special posters, the press, and national magazines.
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1/29/43
RADIO GETS ANOTHER BIG BREAK IN F. D. R. * S AFRICA HOP
The release at 10 P.M. of the fact that the President had
conferred with Churchill in Africa was another great break for radio.
Although authorities maintained that this hour (3 A. M. in London)
was fairest to all, many publishers in the United States charged
that it was one more instance in which the New Deal had favored the
radio as against the newspapers. Releasing the story at 10 P.M. ,
they argued, was too late for the evening papers and too early for
the morning papers thus allowing the radio to skim off the cream.
Within two hours the Office of War Information, with its
23 transmitters, had broadcast the announcement around the world in
a dozen languages. The British Broadcasting Corporation was like¬
wise on the job and the BBC and the OWI kept the thing going all
night.
Radio Algiers broadcast it to Tunis, in French and Italian
for the population there and in Germany for the Nazi forces. Radio
Morocco poured out the same story in the languages of Southern
Europe, while OWI agents at Ankara, Chungking and elsewhere relayed
it in long- wave from region to region.
Extraordinary precautions were taken against the Axis sta¬
tions jamming either the American or British broadcasts.
As a precautionary move and so that the radio and the press
would know that Mr. Roosevelt was on the move - and be reminded
that this was confidential - Byron Price, Director of Censorship,
issued at 11 P.M. , January 9 the following memorandum:
,rNote to editors and broadcasters - strictly confidential
and not for publication.
"The President is taking another trip. The attention of
every editor and broadcaster is directed forcefully to the code pro¬
vision restricting any information regarding the movements of the
Commander- in- Chief and any other ranking officials of the Government,
Upon his return detailed news of his trip will be made available to
all simultaneously. "
No Washington newspapermen accompanied President Roosevelt
on the African trip.
There were many indications of Mr. Roosevelt's absence
from the Capital, such as the cancellation of his semi-weekly press
conferences and the absence of his weekly conferences with Congres¬
sional leaders.
From London at the same time came indications of Prime
Minister Churchill's absence from his capital, along with dispatches
that he was likely to confer soon with Mr, Roosevelt.
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Putting two and two together, editors could be certain that
a Roosevelt-Churchill oarley was under way. But the censorshio code
was observed and the news was not published.
According to a press release put out by the Columbia
Broadcasting System, the Roose vel t-Churchill Casablanca conference
had a listening audience of 56,560,000 adults, based on a survey
made by C. E. Hooper, Inc. , research firm.
The HooDer rating for the broadcasts was 71.0. It was
said to have been based on reoorts from all parts of the United
States. The all-time high was a Hooper rating of 79.0, with an
adult listening audience of 62,100,000 for President Roosevelt's
war message on December 9, 1941.
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QUIZ LOSER REVEALS RADIO'S AMAZING- PULLING POWER
The biggest free advertisement of radio’s pulling power
ever received is in the experience of the Staten Island woman who
gave the wrong answer in the "Truth and Consequences" program in
New York earlier in the week. If taken from a radio source (oddly
enough NBC press agents seemed to have fallen down in covering this
big event), the story would probably seem too fantastic and prob¬
ably many would not believe It, so the writer herewith quotes an
account which appeared in the New York Times :
"Mrs. Dennis Mullane , Staten Island mother of al7-year-old
Marine, who has been trying to open a deluge of mail since Monday,
got some relief when the National Broadcasting Comnany assigned a
staff of fifteen clerks to open the 130,000 letters she had received
up to last night because she failed to answer a question on a quiz
program last Saturday night.
"But then the oackages began to arrive. And, according to
Post Office regulations, they must be delivered to her at her home,
52 Moody Place, West Brighton. A mail truck nulled un to the door
yesterday to deliver about twenty-five packages containing neckties,
handkerchiefs, stickoins and other presents for her son, and John J.
Reagan, Assistant Postmaster at Staten Island, revealed last night
that a second truck would deliver as many more oackages today.
"Mrs. Mullane, who always has liked to receive letters,
admitted that she was completely flabbergasted by the avalanche that
poured into her home after Ralph Edwards, master of ceremonies of
the "Truth or Consequences" program] asked radio listeners to send
letters with oennies to her for the purpose of war bonds as a post¬
war stake for her son.
don't know how I can thank all these wonderful people',
Mrs. Mullane said. "I'd like to thank them each individually, but
it would take the rest of my life to answer all those letters. '
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"Most of the letter-writers did not limit themselves to
the penny requested, and many took up collections to enclose in one
envelope. A radio listener in Albany sent a whole penny bank of 304
coppers to Mrs. Mullane ; a girl sent 186 pennies, and the grandmother
of thirteen children sent a penny for each of them. Some letters con¬
tained quarters and half dollars and a few contained bills.
"A 17-year-old girl who said she hoped to Join the WAVES
sent a scented note with her penny contribution asking Mrs. Mullane
for tne address of her son,
"Although it was impossible to determine tiie exact amount
of tne contributions, a mathematician figured the total at somewhere
near $15,000. With letters pouring in from every State in the Union,
it will be several days before the money can be counted. And the
foreign countries have not been heard from. "
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RADIO INSTITUTE CONVENTION BY RADIO BIG SUCCESS
The annual convention by radio of the Institute of Radio
Engineers as a substitute for their usual gathering in New York and
to save time and travel, proved a big success. Section meetings
were held in different parts of the country and the Columbia Broad¬
casting System provided the facilities for linking them together.
James L. Fly, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission,
speaking from the meeting of the Washington section, delivered the
principal address. This was broadcast. Prior to this, the instal¬
lation of Dr. Lynde P. Wheeler, the IRE's newly elected president,
was heard from New York.
The day before in New York City at the annual meeting of
the Institute of Electrical Engineers, Dr. Edwin H. Armstrong,
Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, received
the Edison Medal, highest honor in the field of electrical engineer¬
ing "for distinguished contributions to the art of electric commun¬
ication, notably the regenerative circuit, the superheterodyne and
frequency modulation (FM).
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SOME STATIONS ON AIR IN NEW BLACKOUT RULES
In the new set of blackout rules for the District of
Columbia and 16 Eastern states, certain radio stations, on selected
frequencies to be announced, will remain on the air to broadcast
official bulletins during tne periods of the "blue" and "red" sig¬
nals under the control of the service command. Radio stations
operating on frequencies between 3,000 and 30,000 kilocycles will
not be silenced. Stations below 3,000 and above 30,000 kilocycles
will go off the air except for the si^ecially selected ones and Army,
Navy and emergency stations on a controlled basis.
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MORE COMMITTEE MEMBERS NAMED BY NEW CONGRESS
The following have been elected or re-elected to the
House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee by the new Congress,
the Committee which considers most of the radio and communications
legislation:
Richard J. Welch, California; Francis D. Culkin, New York;
Josepn J. O’Brien, New York; Fred Bradley, Michigan; James E. Van
Zandt, Pennsylvania; Gordon Canfield, New Jersey; Lawrence H. Smith,
Wisconsin; Daniel Ellison, Maryland; Alvin F. Weichel, Ohio; Joseph
R. Farrington, Hawaii.
Just announced are these House Patents Committee members:
Fred A. Hartley, Jr. , New Jersey; Leslie C. Arends, Illi¬
nois; Charles A. Wilverton, New Jersey; Hugh D. Scott, Jr. ,
Pennsylvania; William H. Stevenson, Wisconsin; Fred E. Busbey,
Illinois; Winifred C. Stanley, New York; Robert Hale, Maine; Louis
E. Miller, Missouri.
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FCC ACTION
Applications Granted: KTRB , KTRB Broadcasting Co. , Inc. ,
Modesto, Calif. , granted modification of license to move main studio
to Norwegian Ave. between Sunrise Ave. and Coffee Road, near Modesto,
Calif.; KFAB, KFAB Broadcasting Co., Lincoln, Nebr. , and WBBM,
Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. , Chicago, Ill. , granted extension
of special service authorization to operate synchronously with each
other from local sunset at Lincoln, Nebr. to 12 midnight CST, for
the period ending February 1, 1944; KTHS, Radio Broadcasting, Inc. ,
Hot Springs National Park, Hot Sorings, Ark., granted extension of
special service authorization to operate unlimited time, simultan¬
eously with Station WBAL , Baltimore, Md. , with power of 1 KW night,
10 KW local sunset, for the period ending April 1, 1944,; WINS,
Hearst Radio, Inc. , New York, granted soecial service authorization
to operate unlimited time with 1 KW power, employing directional
antenna night. Television grants: W3XE , Philco Radio and Television
Corp. , Philadelphia, Pa. , granted construction permit to move experi¬
mental television station from Philadelphia, to Wyndmoor, Pa. and
granted license to cover same. Also granted renewal of license to
operate on 66,000-72,000 kc. power 10 KW (peak) visual, 11 kilowatts
aural; Emission A5, and Special for FM (aural); Me tropolltan
Television, Inc. . New York City, granted modification of construction
permit to reduce power to 50 watts (peak) visual and 50 watts aural,
emission A3, A5, and Soecial for FM (aural), and with March 31, 1943,
as completion date for the construction.
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Television Applications Granted (Continued): WCBW,
Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., New York City, granted condi¬
tional license for commercial television broadcast station to oper¬
ate with reduced ESH (Effective Signal Radiated) of 1000, upon condi¬
tion that construction will be completed according to the Commis¬
sion’s Rules, Regulations and Standards as soon as the required
materials and engineering personnel have become available;
High Frequency (FM) Broadcast: W7NY , Metropolitan Tele¬
vision, Inc. , New York City, granted license to cover construction
permit in part and approval of studio location for new FM station in
New York; W71NY , Bamberger Broadcasting Service, Inc., New York City,
granted modification of construction permit for extension of comple¬
tion date to January 26, 1943 and granted license to cover construc¬
tion permit in part.
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DISCUSSES WALTER WINCHELL ALONG- WITH DOG LEGISLATION
In connection with some proposed legislation by Represent¬
ative Bradley ( R) , of Michigan, affecting the welfare and security
of dogs, Representative Hoffman ( R) , of Michigan, said yesterday
(Thursday) addressing the House of Representatives:
"Speaking of dogs, I did not hear what the gentleman from
Michigan said about dogs, so I cannot make answer directly to what
the gentleman from Oklahoma said about the proposed legislation; but
may I say that anyone who has been yelped against and howled against
as has been so many Members of this House by some one or two of
these radio commentators is justified in bringing to the House some
sort of suggestion to limit them. There are many kinds of dogs.
Many breeds of dogs; dogs are of many colors and sizes. * * *
"To show the opinion held by some helping human beings who
stand on two legs and who are not dogs, permit me to read from two
letters received this morning. One from Jacksonville, Fla. This
comes from the Florida Beacon, Jacksonville, ^a. It reads as fol¬
lows:
"January 25, 1943
"‘The Andrew Jergens Co.,
Cincinnati, Ohio:
'I see that you have turned loose on the public again that
disturber, Walter Winehell, with his egotism and unreliable state¬
ments.
‘In his broadcast last evening he repeated what he claimed was
a quotation from a speech he had said Congressman Houston, of Kansas,
had made, in which Congressman Hoffman, of Michigan, had been given
a drubbing,
'The only thing wrong with this is that nowhere in the Congres¬
sional Record do such words appear; also there is no one by the name
of Houston in Congress, either from Kansas or any other State.
There was a party by that name in a previous Congress, but he was
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repudiated at the polls by his constituents; and his present address
is Wichita, Kans. , and not Washington, D. G. Winchell in his broad¬
cast was careful to conceal the fact.1
"Here is another one that came in from New York and it
reads as follows:
'■•Is it not about time that this loud-mouth Walter Winchell who
shouts forth his feuds over the radio every Sunday evening was
muzzle d?
"•How is it he can get away with the kind of stuff he outs over
the air when other oeople are frozen out. ^he oublic are getting
tired of this fellow. ' He was off the air for a few weeks which I can
truthfully say added refinement to Jergens lotion broadcast.
"•If he is wearing a Navy uniform why in hell don't they put
him on a ship and keep him off the air. He seems to air all his
fights over the radio.
"•This would be a good time for Congressman Cox to ask Mr. ^ly
why he is oermitted to go on the air with his insulting remarks to
advertise some cheap skin lotion. ’
"I think the gentleman is in error about that latter state¬
ment. I do not think it is cheap. It may smell that way, but it is
not cheap in price. If it is no more reliable than its mouthoiece,
it is of little value. "
"Now that we are in this war, of course, our first busi¬
ness is to take care of the people, but I suppose that before the
war is over some of these doers of good, like Harry Konkins and some
others of those people down there, will be taking care of the dogs,
the Chinese dogs, and the Hottentot and the Bushmen dogs, and the
dogs of all those people down in South Africa, and in India, Europe
and Asia. * * *’M> Congress has been treated like dogs. During the
last campaign we were treated worse than our dogs. I have been
wondering if we would have courage enough to insist finally that
some of those wno have been abusing, and misusing, and kicking us
around as though we were dogs, without even giving us the privilege
that is given to a dog when kicked - I am wondering whether those on
the majority side will not kindly join with us and get Resolution 13
out from the Committee on Rules and bring up this man Maloney and
Winchell and the convict Browder - there are three good ones,
Maloney, Browder - put Browder in the middle and Walter Winchell at
the end - bring up those three fellows and let us see what they are
up to, and what they are doing, and who is paying them, and what
their puroose is. We know it, but let us so re ad it on the record.
Their purpose is to destroy the confidence of the oeonle in the
Congress, not in the individual Members but the Congress as a whole,
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ROSENBAUM PROPOSED JUKE BOX TAX PLAN
Saying that ne thinks this is an appropriate time to do so,
"before Petrillo comes out with some new demand inspired by the sug¬
gestion of the Senate Committee", Samuel Rosenbaum, President of
WFIL, Philadelphia, has sent a letter to the broadcasters, which
reads in part :
"Agreeing that most of the small commercial enterprises,
like taverns, stores, lunchrooms, and small radio stations, which
depend on the use of records for entertainment, cannot afford to
hire live musicians, I propose that all commercial users of records
contribute a fair royalty to an employment fund to be onerated under
indenendent control. Credit against such royalty obligation would
necessarily be allowed any commercial user of records for the amount
of any expenditure he makes for employment of live musicians. * * *
"Herbert C. Bingham, counsel for the Senate committee, nut
into the record an estimate that there are 4,500 operators of juke¬
boxes with an average of 40 machines each, or a total of 180,000
machines operated by the syndicates. Taking his figure of $12 per
week with 180,000 machines in syndicate operation, the gross is
$2,160,000 per week, or over $112,000,000 per annum.
"Taking a round figure of $150,000,000 for the annual gross
of the jukeboxes, and applying a factor of 4$ royalty for an emoloy-
ment fund, this would produce a gross fund of at least $6,000,000
to operate a system for the employment and encouragement of live
musicians. Even allowing an overhead of $200,000 for organization
and staff, there would still be a net fund available of at least
$5,800,000 per annum for the employment of live musicians out of
Jukebox royalties, without one dollar additional of expenditure by
the radio industry.
"At an average of $1,000 compensation per annum for part-
time employment, this will provide work for 5,80*0 persons; at an
average of $2,000 per annum for full-time employment, it will pro¬
vide a livelihood for 2,900 skilled musicians.
"Amendments to the copyright laws are, of course, necessary
to make such a royalty collectable. "
"This new source of revenue for the employment of live
musicians should, and in fairness ought to, enable the union to
reduce the burden now being voluntarily borne by the radio networks,
the network-affiliated stations and many of the non-aff illated sta¬
tions which gross over $20,000 per annum and employ live musicians. "
"Since 1938 the radio industry a lone has been carrying
the load. It is time part of it be shifted to other commercial users
of music. Doing so will also enable all of us to rectify a just com¬
plaint of the musicians. ^hey are entitled to fair protection agains
free exploitation by commercial users of records made for home use
and which, when used for profit, destroy the further employment of
the very men who made them. "
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TRADE NOTES :::
Dr. Albert W. Hull, Assistant Director of the General
Electric Research Laboratory, was elected President of the American
Physical Society at its meeting in New York in January. ^he Soceity,
which numbers about 4,000 members, includes the nation's physicists,
as well as scientists working in allied fields. Dr. Hull, a native
of Southington, Conn., was graduated in 1905 from Yale University,
where he also obtained his Ph. D. in 1909.
Kenneth D. Fry, NBC Central Division News and Special
Events Director, has resigned, effective February 1, to join the
Overseas Branch of the Office of War Information. He will be suc¬
ceeded by William Ray, now Manager of the Press Department. John p.
Ryan will become Manager of the Press Department, Central Division.
Harry C. Kopf, NBC Vice President and General Manager of the net¬
work' s Central Division has announced the changes.
Early issuance is scheduled by WPB of an amended order to
give a higher preference rating to electronic equipment, Including
broadcasting, for maintenance and repair parts for radio communica¬
tion, sound recording, and radio direction finders, the Radio Manu¬
facturers' Association advises. The present rating is A-l-j, and it
is proposed to Increase this to AA-2-x. Also proposed is action on
the repair and maintenance orders to conform to CMP procedure. The
new P-133 amendment will assist broadcasters and also suppliers of
tubes and other electronic maintenance and repair parts.
Manufacturers of military radio and radar, including parts,
have been authorized to use 40 percent tin for solder, hardware, and
wire coating, under an interpretation of the tin Conservation Order
M-43-a, just issued by WPB. The WPB action follows submission by
many RMA members of information that lower-quality tin solder and
wire coating previously permitted was not satisfactory.
Airplanes of the future will be guided by radio echo over
mountain ranges, in clouds and darkness, a General Electric Company
consulting engineer has predicted. The development will allow air¬
craft to land safely without the pilot seeing the ground, Dr. Ernst
F. W. Alexanderson said in a G-E science forum address.
Cooperative Analysis of Broadcasting figures for listening
during the first week-end of the pleasure driving ban disclose that
nighttime listening in the 17 Eastern States was 17$ above what it
was in the non-ban areas. Daytime listening in the 17 Eastern States
rose 12$, as compared to the listening index for the rest of the
country during that same weekend.
W2XMC, Muzak Corporation, New York, N. Y. , has asked the
FCC for modification of construction permit which authorized a new
developmental broadcast station, for extension of completion date
from 3/1/43 to 9/1/43.
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RADIO TO BE INCLUDED IN MINIMUM WAGE ACTION
The radio industry will he included with about 300 other
industries, comprising all those using metals or plastics, in a
general, overall proceeding by the Wage and Hour Division, Depart¬
ment of Labor, to establish a universal minimum wage of 40/ per
hour. The Radio Manufacturers’ Association has been officially
advised by the Wage and Hour Division of the large industrial group
wage proceeding, and the appointment of Octave Blake, South Plain-
field, New Jersey, RMA Director and Chairman of the Association’s
special Wage-Hour Administration Committee, to represent radio
industry interests, is scheduled on the General Committee, which
will be relatively small in size for the number of industries in¬
volved, An official statement to RMA disclosed that it was not ad¬
visable to appoint separate, special committees for the radio and
many other industries whicn will be grouped in the same proceeding.
The committee will represent management, labor and the public, and
a hearing before Administrator L. Metcalfe Walling is planned in
New York on February 16.
The official statement said that it was recognized that
the radio industry, as well as most of the 300 other industries con¬
cerned, now pay minimum wages in excess of 40/ per hour, but the
proposed wage proceeding is to legally establish a universal 40/
minimum in all of the industries involved. This large group wage
proceeding, while it is largely academic and held for the technical,
legal purpose of establishing a universal 40/ minimum wage, will
permit the various industries to also have established future special
minimum wages for special learners' groups.
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GENE THOMAS OF WOR ANNOUNCES AD CLUB'S RADIO CLINIC
Eugene S. Thomas, Sales Manager of WOR, has announced the
speakers and subjects for the Radio Production clinic, of which he
is the Director for the Advertising Club of New York.
The Clinic opens on February 4th with a discussion of
"Programming" by Julius Seebach, WOR' s Vice-President in Charge of
Programs. Robert Simon, Director of Continuity at WOR, will speak
on "Words and Music" on February 8; and February 11, Roger Bower,
WOR' s Senior Producer, will talk on "Production in the Studio".
The three remaining sessions will be conducted by Frank Dahm, free¬
lance writer; Robert Colwell of J. Walter Thompson, and Mrs. Harold
Milligan of the N.A.M.
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INDEX TO ISSUE OF FEBRUARY 2# 1943
Radio Engineers Work Compared With Commandos.. . 1
Radio Helps Sink French Battleship 26 Miles Away . . . 2
More Radio Occupations Listed "Essential” . . . 3
Marcantonio Would Block WU-Postal Merger... . . . ..4
Small Stations Lag In Giving FCC financial Data . . . .....5
Blames Radio And Press T?or Phony African Build-Up . 5
VCC Inquiry Head Again Linked With Georgia Station . 7
Mackay Radio Opens Direct Circuit With Britain . .
Dies Reveals Goodwin, Alleged v^C Red, Got Pay Raise
Trade Notes . . . 10
Mutual To Increase Budget . . . 11
Wood To Direct CBS Public Affairs In Capital . . . 11
No. 1500
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February 2, 1943
RADIO ENGINEERS WORK COMPARED WITH COMMANDOS
Paying tribute to the scientific side, James L. Ely,
Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said, addressing
the Institute of Radio Engineers over the Columbia Broadcasting
System last week:
"The problem you engineers face in inventing, designing
and manufacturing the necessary equipment for the armed forces of
ourselves and our allies, while less stirring than those besetting
the commandos, are equally difficult, as seemingly impossible and
as demanding in ingenuity and plain hard work. Less dramatic, pei>-
haps, but of basic importance are the day-to-day accomplishments in
radio laboratories and factories all over the country. In this war
of speed and movement, radio equipment which you are turning out is
as essential as arms and ammunition. The stakes which hinge upon
your doing the best possible Job are nothing less than victory or
de feat.
"Just as transport is the bloodstream of modern warfare,
so communications is its nerve system. Every bomber, every tank,
every submarine is radio-equipped today and relies on radio for its
efficacy in battle. Nor is your work limited to communications.
There are other fields in which radio plays an important role - such
as radio location devices.
"Your newly elected national president, Dr. Lynde P.
Wheeler, who assumed office this afternoon, and of whom we in the
Federal Communications Commission are Justly proud, has done his bit
of research - for example, in undersea communications.
"The research problems which radio engineers must conquer
today would have baffled any scientist a generation ago. We need
microphones, for example, which will transmit the human voice but
not the engine noises of a four-motored bomber hurtling through the
air at high speeds. We need direction-finding apparatus which will
locate the plane, ship, or land station from which a given radio
signal emanates. We need walkie-talky radios, light enough to be
carried into battle. Even the common variety of radio receiver must
be reengineered if it is to be used on board ship, in order to pre¬
vent tell-tale radiations from revealing the location of the ship to
enemy raiders. Above all, we need absolute dependability in all war
communications apparatus. Such design problems as these are daily
being met and solved.
"After such equipment has been invented and designed, it
must be manufactured. It's one thing to invent a new radio circuit
or design a new piece of apparatus; it's something else again to
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put that apparatus into mass production, with a minimum of delay
and a maximum saving of scarce raw materials,
’’During the comparatively peaceful 1920’s and 1930’s, the
radio manufacturing industry turned out ordinary radio receivers by
the million, and indeed by the tens of millions, to meet popular
demand. Witn the coming of war and our own war program, you were
called upon to convert, almost overnight, an industry geared to
peacetime radio listening into an industry turning out tools of war.
You radio engineers are to be congratulated on the completeness,
tne efficiency, and the smoothness with which you have done the Job.
Tne results are known not only to our own fighting forces and to our
allies, but to the enemy as well.
’’Though the Job to date fully merits your digging into
that can of tobacco, you ought to save the greater part yet awhile.
The efforts of radio engineers cannot be relaxed. Just the contrary.
In no war has technical progress moved as rapidly as in this. The
engineering marvel of January may be the obsolete technique of
December. The enemy, too, has skilled engineers, and must not be
under-rated. If American force's are to advance with suoerior com¬
munications equipment, the rate of engineering progress must be main¬
tained and indeed accelerated. If the enemy engineers are good, our
own are and must be even better. It is with that thought that I
would leave you, secure in the knowledge that in every radio labor¬
atory, every factory, and every communications office in the land,
all of us will give our utmost - now, and for the duration. "
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RADIO HELPS SINK FRENCH BATTLESHIP 26 MILES AWAY
There was a thrilling moment at the New York meeting of
the Institute or Radio Engineers when Rear Admiral S. C. Hooper
related a single dramatic example of what quick radio communication
means in modern warfare. During the landing operations at Casablanca
the most formidable French warship putting up resistance was the
battleship JEAN BART, An Allied battleship opened fire on her, at
a range of 26 miles.
The first salvo scored a hit on her deck, a damaging but
not a fatal blow. An observation plane flashed back a slight correc¬
tion. The next salvo struck the ship at the waterline, immediately
putting her out of action.
"The new wartime radio specifications reflect the demand foi
perfect performance". Admiral Hooper said, "perfect reception by
planes flying at 20,000 feet, battling ice and sleet, as well as the
enemy; perfect reception by pitching tanks, hurdling debris and Jolt¬
ing thru shell holes in the heat of the African deserts; perfect
reception for all our mobile equipment, whether it be in the battle
of Midway, the Aleutians, or the green hell of steaming Jungles in
the Solomons.
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"These specifications call for equipment that must stand
up witn full efficiency under all conditions - tropical and Arctic
temperatures, rapid changes in altitude, varying humidities, salt
spray, hot sun and desert sands. It must be unaffected by the motion
of motorized units, ships and aircraft, and the jar and vibration
due to gunfire and shell impact.
"It must be fireproof, especially from the instantaneous
hot flame which follows a bomb explosion or proximity to hot metal
surfaces. It must carry on during severe icing and snow conditions.
It must be rugged to withstand mishandling and operation by inexper¬
ienced personnel, and Jars due to handling in transit. It must be
designed to compromise ruggedness and extreme sensitivity. "
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MORE RADIO OCCUPATIONS LISTED "ESSENTIAL"
The Selective Service authorities enlarged its list of
"essential occupations" in the communications service to include 120
types of jobs.
Among occupations listed as essential in radio broadcasting,
radio communications (radio telephone and radio telegraph) and tele¬
vision services were these:
Director of operations, domestic or international radio
broadcasting ("includes those persons who are in charge directly, or
through subordinates, of the activities of the various operating
departments of a network" and assistants directly responsible to him
"for the efficient functioning of the various operating departments",
but not directors or assistants "concerned with sales, promotional,
legal, tax, clerical and other non-operating aspects").
Radio communications dispatchers, all-around electrician,
professional or technical engineer (those "actually engaged as engi¬
neers in the operating or research phases of this activity, regard¬
less of educational background").
Design engineering draftsman, radio communications foreman
(installation and repair), radio communications equipment inspector
of installer, training program inspector, all-around instrument mak¬
er, all-around machinist, maintenance mechanic, employment or per¬
sonnel manager.
Radio communications system or station manager or super¬
intendent ( "including assistants directly responsible to them for
efficient functioning of the various technical and operating depart¬
ments").
News, special events or public affairs managing editor,
radio communication equipment mechanician, news editor, news editor-
announcer in international broadcasting, plant maintenance and
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operations supervisor, program director, all-around radio broadcast
technician, all-around radio communication technician.
Radio telegrapher, radiophoto operator, rigger radio, sta¬
tion manager, chief storekeeper, television engineer, traffic manager,
traffic supervisor, translator in international broadcasting, short¬
wave monitoring services, or radio communications.
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MARCANTONIO WOULD BLOCK WU-POSTAL MERGER
Opposing the Western Union-Postal merger, Congressman Vito
Marcantonio of New York, last week Introduced into the House a bill
to prohibit the abandonment of any telegraph "line, plant, office or
other physical facility” unless and until "there shall first have been
obtained from the Federal Communications Commission a certificate
that the present or future public convenience and necessity" will
require such abandonment.
Mr. Marcantonio, after studying the record of the hearings
on legislation affecting the communications industry, stated:
"It is apparent that certain corporations in the communica¬
tions industry are planning to abandon communications facilities in
order to solve financial problems involved in maintaining them.
Tnis is sometning whicn the American people cannot tolerate during
a period of war. I think it is common knowledge by now that our
long distance telephone is jammed to capacity. Our radio systems
nave been curtailed due to the dangers of enemy interception. It is
therefore essential that our telegraph systems be in a position to
nandle the growing volume of traffic witn the speed and efficiency
required by wartime needs. This means that all existing facilities
must be maintained. To permit abandonment of any part of them would
result in a complete breakdown in the communications systems of the
greatest nation in the world.
The proposed legislation also provides for the elimination
of all alien control in companies engaged in international communica¬
tions by cable or radio. Mr. Marcantonio declared, in explaining
the purpose of this section of the proposed bill:
"Communications by cable and radio are a vital link between
our nation and the rest of the world. The corporate policies of such
companies are therefore of great interest and concern to the American
people. I am informed that such gigantic corporations as Internation¬
al Telephone and Telegraph have subsidiaries in Germany, Hungary,
Spain and other Axis-controlled countries. They have large inter¬
ests in the Japanese communications system."
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SMALL stations las in giving fcc financial data
When asked at his press conference last Monday If there
was anything he could say as far a s the small broadcasting station
was concerned, or if the report on the small stations anywhere near
ready, Chairman James L. Fly of the Federal Communications Commission
said:
"I do have a tentative report but unfortunately a sub¬
stantial number of stations (a minority but still a fairly sub¬
stantial number) has been sluggish in getting the material in and
we are not yet to the point where we can give the sort of analysis
that we want to do. Just a few days ago we sent a follow-up letter
to the laggard group of stations asking them to get their material
in.'*
“When that is complete you intend to give us a statement?”,
one of the newspapermen asked.
"Yes", the Chairman replied. "I think I will give you a
statement and I will also continue to make public statements about
what I am trying to do. In fact I don't mind telling you now, as I
have indicated before, that I will consider my job simply to help the
stations in any way I can and incidentally I think to help the adver¬
tisers in getting their teeth into the problem and into the potential
of this mode of advertising. I do hope to stimulate some responsible
advertising in the field of the small and remote stations, perhaps
the word 'promote' would not be well chosen, but I expect to offer
any aid I can, and then I would expect to simply furnish whatever
information we might have available to the various stations, classes
of stations, and move into the background with the thought that the
whole matter would be one of private business and private relations
between the advertiser and the stations. All we would expect to do
would be to furnish background information as far as it is available
to us. In other words, we want to help in any way we can without
intruding on the business transactions that may be involved."
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BLAMES RADIO AND PRESS FOR PHONY AFRICAN BUILDUP
The charge is made by William L. Shire r, in his newspaper
column that the radio and the press were to blame for building up
the Casablanca story to such proportions that the public felt that
it had been let down when the facts were known. In Washington the
build-up was regarded by many as an Administration publicity stunt
and the advance notice that "an important announcement would be
made at 10 o'clock" was seen merely as a teaser to whet the public's
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Mr. Shire r writes:
,!It could be argued, of course, that Mr. Roosevelt and Mr.
Churchill were not responsible for the back-firing build-up, but
that the British-Araerican press and radio was largely responsible.
It could be argued that for the first time in this war the news was
made available to the free press and radio 24 hours in advance of
the deadline for publication so that the news and radio editors would
have plenty of time for getting it into print and on the air. These
editors had the text of the communique and an account of the inter¬
views given by the President and the Prime Minister on their desks
late Monday afternoon. And it could be argued with some justifica¬
tion that some of these editors themselves created the build-up by
announcing in print and over the air that important news would be
issued at 10 P.M. on Tuesday evening. Or were the people wrong in
expecting too much?
"At any rate, it was helpful to both press and radio to
have 24 hours advance notice of the story and it was especially valu¬
able to the propaganda office of the Office of War Information. It
gave this office time to translate the material into 21 languages,
to assemble an army of foreign- language announcers and to arrange
for radio transmitters to hurl the story around the world. In the
24-hour period between 10 P.M. T'uesday and 10 P.M. Wednesday, our
story was told the world 721 times in 21 languages over 23 American
transmitters. It was the most complete and efficient short-wave
coverage ever given an event by our budding American propagandists.
"But our own transmitters carried but part of the load.
Special programs were short-waved to Britain and there rebroadcast
by medium wave to the millions in Europe who can only hear medium-
wave broadcasts. Special programs were also short-waved direct to
the radio stations at Algiers and Rabat (but not to Dakar, which
still declines to cooperate) in North Africa which rebroadcast them
in Moroccan, Arabic, French, Italian and German. Moreover, OWI
officials in such distant parts as Ankara, Cairo, Dublin, and Chung¬
king received the story by cable and radio and passed it along to
the local radio and press services.
"How the Axis propagandists were caught napping on the
Casablanca story is worth noting.45, * *
"Berlin seems to have been thrown off the scent by the
Washington dispatches reporting the President’s intervention in the
anthracite coal strike. This was striking proof of the Nazis that
Mr. Roosevelt was in Washington. Whether our psychological warfare
experts in Washington handled this news item as they did purposely
to confound the Nazis is not known. One is inclined to doubt it.
But it did confound them.
"It took the Germans 45 minutes to wake up to the true
story of Casablanca. At 10:45 P.M. Tuesday the Nazi wrans-Ocean
news agency sent out in Morse code the first account. Probably Dr.
Joseph Paul Goebbels could not be reached on the telephone to give
the ’line’, for this first German message reported the news from
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Casablanca straight. Not until 1 A.M. - 3 hours after the story
broke - was Berlin able to develop a propaganda angle. At that
hour an English-language broadcast said feebly: 'There are more
important things to do nowadays than hold conferences.’ Rome didn’t
wake up to the story until the next morning. Japan woke up at 2 A.M. ,
4 nours late, with a straight announcement, but followed it at 2:40
with their first propaganda slant which was similar to Berlin’s. "
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FCC INQUIRY HEAD AGAIN LINKED WITH GEORGIA STATION
Notwithstanding the recent swat Representative Cox, of
j-eorgia, took at the federal Communlca tions Commission recently
resulting in a resolution to investigate that body, it was again
charged at the Commission that Mr. Cox, in violation of the law
prohibiting members of Congress from practicing before Government
bureaus had been the Washington representative of Station WALB in
his district at Albany, Ga.
FCC Counsel Marcus Cohn introduced two checks and a bank
statement which disclosed how Representative Cox became the owner of
25 shares of WALB stock without apparent cost to himself.
The Examiner also received a report on a conference between
wo FCC representatives and C. D, Tounsley, WALB Secretary— Treasurer,
which was signed by all three. This report showed that the WALB
company granted a power of attorney to Hugh C. McCarthy, secretary to
Mr. Cox on November 3, 1941. McCarthy was to appear for WALB before
the FCC at a hearing on an application for a new station at Tampa,
"This particular assignment", said the report, "was handled
for Cox by Cox’s employee, McCarthy. On December 12, 1941, a bill of
approximately $240 was submitted to WALB by McCarthy, This bill was
not paid by WALB because of the fact that services provided had
already been covered under an arrangement with Cox/ Cox Joined in
thl s understanding that McCarthy was not to receive payment for his
services for WALB because of the fact that McCarthy was employed by
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"Neither Cox nor McCarthy’s services were performed at
Albany, Ga, The Cox and McCarthy legal services at Washington were
exclusively for WALB. . . , Radio Station WALB has never at any time
and does not now have any Washington representation other than that
provided by E. E. Cox. "
The checks Introduced were for $2500 each, one from WALB
dated August 18, 1941, and one for the same amount from Cox
to WALB, dated August 15, 1941. Cox's check was in payment for 25
shares of WALB -stock. About three weeks ago, H. T. McIntosh, Presi¬
dent of the WALB operating company, testified that the $2500 was paid
his Congressman for legal services he could perform "in an ethical
and legal manner" not in conflict with his legislative status. The
exhibits produced showed that Cox wrote his check three days before
in his favor Was issued and that after Cox indorsed the WALB
$2500 check he deposited it on August 30 to his credit in the City
National Bank in Albany,
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MACKAY RADIO OPENS DIRECT CIRCUIT WITH BRITAIN
A new direct radiotelegraph service between the United
States and Great Britain was established yesterday (Monday), oper¬
ated by the Mackay Radio and Telegraph Company in New York City
and Cable & Wireless, Ltd. , of the British communication system.
The new direct trans- Atlantic circuit will be an important aid at
this time in handling the large and steadily mounting volume of
rapid communication messages between this country and our British
Allies. The opening of service is announced by Admiral Luke McNamee,
President of Mackay Radio, and the first messages were exchanged
between Admiral McNamee in New York and Sir Edward Wilshaw, K.C.M.G.,
Managing Director of Cable & Wireless in London.
^he announcement stated that all classes of commercial
telegraph services will be handled over the new circuit, including
Expeditionary Force Messages, the special low rate radiogram service
to men in the armed forces of the United States stationed overseas.
Other new circuits established by Mackay Radio since the
war are: three circuits to different terminal points in Soviet
Russia, three to China; to Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne, Australia;
to New Zealand, to Bermuda; to Cairo, Egypt; and direct circuits to
Bolivia, Colombia and Paraguay have been added in Mackay Radio's
service to points throughout Latin America.
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DIES FEVEALS GOODWIN, ALLEGED FCC RED, GOT PAY RAISE
In proposing that Congress get rid of "crackpots" and
"radical bureaucrats" in the Government service, Representative Dies,
Democrat, of Texas, revealed the fact that Goodwin B. Watson, who was
so enthusiastically backed by Chairman James L. Fly, has not only
succeeded in holding his job, Congress to the contrary notwithstand¬
ing, but secured a substantial raise in pay.
Representative Dies said:
"In a letter which I sent to Chairman Fly on November 18,
1941, I called attention to Goodwin Watson's long record of Commun--
1st views and his numerous affiliations with Communist-front organi¬
zations. As a result of that exposure this House once refused to.
allow any portion of the appropriations of the Federal Communications
Commission to be used to pay the salary of Goodwin Watson. Since
that time Watson's salary has been raised from $5,600 to $6,500 a
year.
"In an article which he wrote for a magazine known as the
World Tomorrow, Watson lumped Coueism, pyorrhea, and Congress to¬
gether as some of the great jokes of the age. "
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"In Common Sense magazine, Watson went on record as
favoring a sudden, complete, and violent, that is, Communist, change
from our present form of society to a Socialist society. In this
article, he categorically rejected the idea of a gradual shift from
capitalism to socialism. No amount of sophistry can explain away
Watson's favorable views on communism as he himself publicly express¬
ed them before he came down to Washington to draw his $6,500 salary
as one of our host of radical bureaucrats. * # *
'•Here are four folders of exhibits which contain a fairly
complete documentation of Goodwin Watson's Communist views and
affiliations. I shall be glad to turn this evidence over to the
committee which this House has recently set up for the investigation
of the Federal Communications Commission. "
Among the other persons Representative Dies charged with
having Communistic affiliations, who held responsible Government
jobs were William E. Dodd, Jr. , of the FCC, and Frederick L.
Schuman, Chief Political Analyst of the ^CC. Of the former, Mr.
Dies said:
"William E. Dodd, Jr. , is employed by the Federal Communi¬
cations Commission at a salary of $3,200 a year. Dodd was recently
refused a visa by the State Department when he was assigned a commis¬
sion which would take him to England. This refusal of a visa by
the State Department was based upon information furnished the Depart¬
ment by our committee and the F. B. I. Among his many activities on
behalf Communist Front organizations. Dodd was a secretary of the
American League for Peace and Democracy which the Attorney General
branded as subversive.
"I shall be glad to turn this evidence over to the committee
that this House has recently set up for the investigation of the
Federal Communications Commission. "
Mr. Dies also charged Paul R. Porter, chief of the Stabil¬
ization Branch of the WPB, receiving $8,000 a year, as being a
Socialist and as saying:
"Nothing less than a Socialist revolution will free labor
from insecurity and industrial serfdom. "
The name of Paul R. Porter being mentioned immediately
after Messrs. Watson, Dodd and Schuman of the FCC was probably mis¬
understood by many to refer to Paul A. Porter, Deputy Administrator
in charge of Rents. Paul A. Porter was formerly FCC General Counsel,
and later counsel for CBS.
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Dissemination of false advertisements concerning the
therapeutic value of a medicinal preparation designated "Baume Ben-
Gay" is alleged by the Federal Trade Commission in a complaint
issued against Thomas Leeming & Co., for external application in the
treatment of various painful conditions of the body and advertises ix
over the radio and in newsoapers, circulars and pamphlets.
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TRADE NOTES :
The Radio Division of the War Production Board hereafter
will administer three "L" orders previously under the jurisdiction
of the General Industrial Equipment Division. These are L-203 cover¬
ing combat measuring instruments, L-234 covering industrial type
instruments and L-134 which limits the use of chromium and metal in
controlled valves and regulators.
The 70-story RCA Building, part of Radio City, has the
largest tentative assessed valuation of any edifice on New York
City’s 1943-44 rolls. The tax commission's report to Mayor LaG-uardia
snowed assessments of $28,500,000 against the RCA Bldg., while the
entire Rockefeller development was assessed at $92,600,000.
Representatives of radio stations in eleven Eastern States,
affiliated with the National Broadcasting Company, met last Wednes¬
day with NBC officials to explore and further radio's role in the
war effort. Tne network's second annual War Clinic held a two-day
session at the Waldorf Astoria hotel. At the conclusion of the
Clinic in New York City, NBC officials departed for Richmond, Va. ,
the first stop in atour of six cities, with the final session
scheduled to be held in Los Angeles. Representatives of the net¬
work's 135 affiliated stations will have attended the War Clinic
at the completion of tne tour.
A radio transmitter is now being used by the Duramold
Division of the Fairchild Engine and Aviation Company to make molded
wood and plastic airplanes for the United States. There has always
been the problem of applying heat and pressure so evenly that all
parts of a molded section got the same amount of heat and pressure
at the same time.
The Duramold Company took up the suggestion that high fre¬
quency radio waves - something in the nature of ten megacycles -
might answer the problem. Experiments thus far carried out are said
to have been successful.
Free classes in Spanish and Portuguese have been offered to
the members of the CBS staff by the network. Initial registration
for the classes numbered 180. And now, because of the popularity of
these classes and the requests from many employees, old and new, for
the privilege of attending these classes an additional class in
Spanish started Monday, February 1st.
Students from several New England and upstate New York
colleges are gaining television program experience before the cameras
of WRGB, the General Electric station in Schenectady. Groups from
both men' s and women' s colleges are presenting a variety of programs,
including plays, dance and musical recitals and demonstrations of
various kinds. The most recent college group to appear was from the
Yale University Department of Drama.
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MUTUAL TO INCREASE BUDGET
Substantial increase in the network budget for carrying out
definite plans of expansion and greatly increased service was approv¬
ed last week by the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee
of the Mutual Broadcasting System at the conclusion of their three
day meeting in Chicago.
The decision to vote the fund increase was based by the
Board and the Executive Committee on a definite program outlined by
Miller McClintock, Mutual’s new president, who announced at the con¬
clusion of the sessions that the General Tire and Rubber Company,
new owner of the Yankee network, had accepted the Mutual network
offer of additional stock and had brought the Yankee network’s hold¬
ings up from six to thirteen and one half shares. William O’Neil,
President of the General Tire and Rubber Company, was present at the
meetings.
It was also announced that Station WIP, Philadelphia,
exercising its option became a Mutual network stockholder to the
extent of six shares.
The meetings of the Executive Committee were presided over
by Chairman W. E. Macfarlane, WGN, Chicago. Meetings of the Board
were presided over by Chairman Alfred J. McCosker of WOR, New York.
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WOOD TO DIRECT CBS PUBLIC AFFAIRS IN CAPITAL
Robert S. Wood, Assistant Director of CBS News Broadcasts
in New York, has recently been appointed CBS Director of Public
Affairs in Washington. In the National Capital, Mr. Wood will dir¬
ect all news, public affairs and special events broadcasting which
originates in that area.
Everett Holies, who has been CBS night news editor in
New York, has been named Assistant Director of News Broadcasts and
he Is succeeded by Henry Wefing as Night News Editor.
Miss Ann Gillis has resigned as Director of CBS Special
Events in Washington. Eric Sevareid, wno has been in charge of news
broadcasts in Washington remains as chief correspondent of the CBS
Washington bureau, but is being relieved of administrative work
because of the pressure of a heavy news broadcasting schedule.
Robert S. Wood studied at Cornell University and was
graduated from the University of Toronto. He joined the armed forces
in Canada during the World War and was commissioned a Captain in the
Royal Air Force, serving througnout the war.
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INDEX TO ISSUE 0^ FEBRUARY 5, 1943
Winchell’s "Isolationists Damn ^ools" Burns Congress . 1
Georgia Station Hearing To Resume Feb. 1 . . .
President Praises Radio And Press For Trip Secrecy .
Radio Instrument Manufacturers To Get Assistance .
Injunction Denied Producer Of "Information Please" .
Mystery In Marshall Field Station Folding . 5
Military Radio 20 Times Biggest Peacetime Output . 5
Attack On "Crackpots And Radical Bureaucrats" Grows . 6
U. S. Should Be Business Umpire Only, Sarnoff Warns . 7
Elmer Davis Finally Decides On Weekly Broadcasts . 8
Trade Notes . 9
To Broadcast Veteran Wireless Ceremonies . 11
CBS And BBC To Present Exchange Series . . . . H
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WINCHELL' S "ISOLATIONISTS DAMN FOOLS" BURNS CONGRESS
As a result of Walter Winchell saying on the air last
Sunday night that those who voted for the return to Congress of any
pre-Pearl Harbor isolationists last Fall "were plain damn fools",
Representative Hoffman (R. ), introduced a resolution calling on the
Secretary of the Navy for an explanation of the status of Winchell,
who is a Lieutenant Commander in the Naval Reserve, and calling
attention to a section of the United States code which reads:
"’An officer who uses contemptuous or disrespectful
words against * * * the Congress of the United States shall
be dismissed from the service or suffer such other punish¬
ment as a court martial may direct. ’
Representative Hoffman is an old enemy of Mr. Winchell but
joining in the attack this time were also Reoresenta tives Bradley(R),
of Michigan, and Keefe ( R) , of Wisconsin. Mr. Bradley expressed
Indignation that the Federal Communications Commission should allow
profanity to go out over the air and suggested that the Appropri¬
ations Committee might find out that they can considerably reduce
the appropriation for the Commission.
Mr. Keefe said:
"I have always supposed that the rules and regulations of
the Communications Commission prohibited the use of profanity and
the utterance of sentiments calculated to stir up hatreds and dis¬
unity on the radio.
"Last Sunday evening I listened to Walter Winchell.
Apparently he feels that he is above the rules and regulations that
apply to citizens generally, because in his broadcast last evening,
in ray judgment, he reached a new low as a purveyor of hate and dis¬
cord when he contemptuously referred to the reelection of Members of
Congress whose pre-Pearl Harbor voting record he had so vigorously
condemned. He spoke as one who had been thwarted and rebuked by the
people of the country who went to the polls and cast their votes last
November. While impliedly admitting the failure of his campaign of
hate directed at many Members of Congress, he directed his vituper¬
ation and venom toward the millions of American citizens who voted
their honest convictions and returned to the Congress of the United
States men and women in whom they had confidence. I was astounded
to hear him indict the patriotism and intelligence of millions of
American people when he stated in substance that what worried him
most today was the 'damn fools who voted for them*.
"It is true that he apologetically stated that there were
hundreds of good and able representatives in the Congress, and he
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singled out our colleague, the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr,
McG-ranery) as a wonderful man, I hope that this orchid tossed to
the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. McGranery) will not be the kiss
of political death such as he administered to our erstwhile colleague,
the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Patrick). Wlnchell has taken on a
big order this time when as an officer in the United States Navy he
referred to millions of decent Americans as damn fools and desecrat¬
ed a decent Sabbath evening and every law of radio to give vent to
his undisguised venom. "
Mr. Hoffman said:
"It is unfortunate that someone in that organization which
manufactures this stuff which people out on their hands and face, a
sort of lotion I believe they call it, does not advise their SDokes-
man and salesman, Walter Winchell, that it does not pay to kick any¬
body's dog around. It does not pay to bite the hand that feeds you.
It is doubtful if it is good salesmanship to tell prospective custom¬
ers that they are dumb. Walter told us last Sunday that there were
some 14,000,000 damn fools in America who voted for Members of Con¬
gress. I wonder whether he thinks he is going to persuade any of
those 14,000,000 to buy that lotion sold by his sponsors? What do
you think of trying to sell something and telling the fellow you are
trying to sell it to that he is a damn fool?"
Calling attention to his resolution (H. R. Res. #95) Mr.
Hoffman said:
"Can you Imagine any tiling that would discourage our people
more than to hear over the radio, as they did last Sunday night, from
an officer of the United States Navy, a lieutenant commander, that
some 14,000,000 of our citizens were damn fools?
"I am asking the Secretary of the Navy and I want to know
whether this officer in the Navy is to be permitted to continue on
the air not only to slander and villi fy individual Congressmen but
the Congress as a whole, the Congress as a branch of the Government,
and is he to be permitted to go further than that and refer to
14,000,000 citizens who voted the Republican ticket. Democrats and
Republicans who believe in this country and its institutions, and
who are making every sacrifice asked of them - is he to be permitted
to go on and over the air designate those 14,000,000 people as damn
fools. If he is, and if the Navy will do nothing about it, will the
Congress do anything about it?
"I have asked members of the Committee on Naval Affairs
what they were going to do about it. One of them told me, 'I cannot
say anything because the things we were told were told us in execu¬
tive session and our hands are tied and our lies are sealed. '
"Since when has it been thought lawful to gag Congress
when Congress itself is assailed and its loyalty challenged, and when
the people wno sent us here are referred to as damn fools? It is bad
enough to charge an individual Member of Congress with disloyalty or
lack of patriotism; it is bad enough to charge the whole Congress
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with being incompetent or disloyal to the interests of the country,
but what glad news it must be to Hitler to learn from New York, the
largest city in our country, over the radio which carries the words
to millions of people throughout our country, that a man, an officer
in tne Navy, can charge 14,000,000 American citizens with being damn
fools. "
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GEORGIA STATION HEARING TO RESUME FEB. 1
The Commission affirmed the decision of the Motions
Commission in denying the petition filed by Herald Publishing Co.
(WALB), Albany, Ga. , for leave to continue the further hearing from
February 1 to March 15 on applications for renewal of license, con¬
struction permit, and voluntary assignment of license. The Commis¬
sion provided further that the completion of the testimony of the
witness Mr. Tounsley should be postponed to 10:00 A.M. , February 25,
1943. At the resumption of the hearings on February 1, counsel for
Station WALB shall have opportunity to put on such further testimony
as he may be prepared to present.
It was in the WALB hearings that Representative Cox, of
Georgia, was again charged as acting as representative of the sta¬
tion which is in his district. As a result of this charge, the
House passed a resolution, prooosed by Mr. Cox, to investigate the
Federal Communications Commission,
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PRESIDENT PRAISES RADIO AND PRESS FOR TRIP SECRECY
In a better humor than when he returned from his off-the-
record transcontinental "inspection" trip before the last election,
the President thanked the radio and the press for having maintained
the secrecy surrounding his trio to Casablanca, Morocco, for war
conferences with Prime Minister Churchill.
The President ooened his press conference with the declar¬
ation that the press and radio had lived up very faithfully to the
request of the Office of Censorship to keep secret the movements of
the Commander-in-Chief and other ranking officials. It was beauti¬
fully done, the President said, and he wanted the newspapers and
radio stations to know how much he appreciated their cooperation.
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RADIO INSTRUMENT MANUFACTURERS TO GET ASSISTANCE
Producers of industrial instruments used in radio manu¬
facture will receive the assistance of the Radio Division of the War
Production Board in the scheduling of deliveries, if they advise the
Division of the particular production programs which cover the
orders on their books.
This was made known at the regular meeting of the Industrial
Instrument Advisory Committee led by Charles L. Saunders of the
Instruments Section of the Radio Division.
For example, a sub-contractor might have on his books
several orders to be delivered at approximately the same date. If
unable to fulfill them simultaneously, he would want to know which
to meet first.
The Radio Division can help him solve the problem if it
knows with which production programs the orders in question were
identified. The sub-contractor, it was said, should inquire of his
customers as to what their programs are and then inform the Instru¬
ments Section of the Division by letter or otherwise.
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INJUNCTION DENIED PRODUCER OF "INFORMATION PLEASE"
Supreme Court Justice Bernard L. Shientag in New York last
Friday denied an application for an injunction to restrain the Ameri¬
can Tobacco Co,, from using the jungle ,,rl1he best tunes of all move to
Carnegie Hall" on the Information Please radio program.
The application was made by Da.niel and Ann Golennaul, co-
oartners of Daniel Oolenpaul Associates, producers of Information
Please. They complained that use of the jingle - a "teaser" for a
new program to be presented by the tobacco company when the Informa¬
tion Please contract expires February 5 - was "low, vulgar and
offensive" and harmed the property value of the Information Please
program.
Justice Shientag ruled that under the contract the sponsor
had the right to prepare all commercials and that the jingle was
part of the commercial.
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Sales of radio receiving sets dropped sharply in Canada
during the tnird quarter of 1942, according to figures released by
the Dominion Bureau of Statistics - decreases being reported by
every Province. Sales during the period totaled only 35,320 a
decline of aporoximately 70 percent from sales of 120,573 units in
July, August, and September, 1941.
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MYSTERY IN MARSHALL FIELD STATION FOLDING
There seemed, to be some mystery about the proposed closing
down of Station WJWC, a small station at Hammond, Indiana, in which
Marshall Field had acquired an interest. It was expected a year or
so ago that Mr. Field would build this up to one of the biggest
stations in the country. One theory was that he would use it in
conjunction with his paper, the Cnicago Sun, to fight WGN of the
Chicago Tribune. It was reported that Mr. Field dropped about
§150,000 in the transaction.
Nevertheless, the Federal Communications Commission was
notified that because of difficulties in operating the station under
war conditions, WJWC would surrender its license Aoril 1st. John W.
Clarke, President of the company operating the station, and from
whose name it gets its call letters, said later, when business con¬
ditions become better, the station would again ask for its license
and in the meantime offered it to the Government for war purposes.
Last January Marshall ^ield acquired 30$ interest in the
station (then operating with the call letters, WHIP), for §50,000,
and Mr. Clarke, a 15$ interest for §25,000. Mr. Clarke last May
purchased 26$ of the stock from Mr, Field and 10$ of the stock from
Dr. George F. Courrier, a minister of Elgin, Ill. , obtaining 51$
or control of the station. The nresent stock alignment of the
corporation now, however, is: Mr. Clarke, 51$; Dr. Courrier, 41$;
Doris Keane, 4$, former General wiana.ger of the station, and Mr.
Field 4$.
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MILITARY RADIO 20 TIMES BIGGEST PEACETIME OUTPUT
Tubes are running short, and already some types are hard
to find, says Radio Today. Difficulties with repair parts seem like¬
ly to show up soon. Distributors, dealers and servicemen are out to
new ingenuities to keep home radios going.
Already replacements for automobile sets and battery port¬
ables have been crossed off production schedules, for the duration.
The War Production Board has ruled that only home receivers can be
provided for in the new plans for Victory reolacement parts.
Meanwhile the trade must remember that radio manufacturers
are achieving prodigious things in the war effort. This year WPB
schedules call for a military radio output from 15 to 20 times the
industry's largest peacetime production. This staggering increase
to back American fighting men, must bring a feeling of satisfaction
and pride to those of us at home as we feel the -cinch in civilian
radio.
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ATTACK ON "CRACKPOTS AND RADICAL BUREAUCRATS" GROWS
The latest to join Marine Dies in the fight on communists
in governmental key positions is Representative Roy 0. Woodruff, of
Michiagn. Mr. Woodruff praised the efforts of Mr. Dies "to drive
from the government payrolls irresponsible, unrepresentative, crack¬
pot and radical bureaucrats".
"The people sent the new Congress to Washington for the
very purpose of rooting out of government those who do not believe
in our American constitutional reore senta tive forms and processes
and of replacing them with officials whose supreme motive would be
to help win this war as quickly as possible and to help put back on
an effective peace basis of operation our free American governmental
economic and social system", Mr. Woodruff declared.
Among those Representative Dies named at the Federal Com¬
munications Commission was Frederick L. Schuman, saying:
"Schuman is chief political analyst of the Federal Commun¬
ications Commission, at a salary of $5,600 a year. Think of it.
How many men in your district get $5,600 a year? The district judge
in my district, who serves five counties and has the responsibility
of dealing with life and death, does not receive $5,600 a year. Not
5 percent of the lawyers in my district get $5,600 a year. As for
the farmers, why, Mr. Speaker, out of all the farmers in my district
there are not half a dozen who get $1,000 a year after they have work'
ed in sleet and wind and rain and in the heat of the midday sun,
after they nave battled insects and drought and everything else. To
come out with $1,000 a year would make them feel like ’economic
royalists 1 .
"Schuman is a man of violent political views. His Commun¬
ist affiliations are a matter of public record. He belonged to the
group which organized itself under the name of the League of Profes¬
sional Groups for Foster and Ford. Foster and Ford were the Commun¬
ist candidates for President and Vice President, respectively. This
League of Professional Groups for Fester and ^ord Issued a pamphlet,
which I hold in my hand. Over the name of Frederick L. Schuman and
others, the following statement appears:
"’We call upon all men and women - especially workers
in the nrofessions and the arts - to join in the revolution¬
ary struggle against capitalism under the leadership of the
Communist Party. ’
"There are no ifs, buts, or ands about this statement,
Schuman, the chief political analyst of the ^edera.1 Communications
Commission, signed it and will undoubtedly step up as a man and admit
his participation in a revolutionary movement aimed at the overthrow
of our American form of government. "
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U.S. SHOULD BE BUSINESS UMPIRE ONLY, SARNOFF WARNS
"Where private enterprise Is able and willing to meet the
needs of society, it should not be the function of the Government to
create industrial enterprises or to finance them, or to run them; or
to employ labor, or to operate our vast agricultural system. The
Government's function should be that of an umpire to see that each
segment of society plays its part in accordance with the rules and
fulfills its obligations to the community as a whole. In perform¬
ing that task the Government would do a great deal to assure stabil¬
ity to our economic life", David Sarnoff declared, addressing the
Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York.
The new idea of a vested interest on the part of labor,
and the newer and more dangerous idea of a vested interest on the part
of government bureaucracy, must give way, Mr. Sarnoff said, along
with the old idea of a vested interest on the part of business. He
warned that neither Government, business nor labor can have a vested
interest that runs against the common welfare of society.
"American business is doing its snare in mobilizing this
fereat country's resources for tne war", continued Mr. Sarnoff. "It
will do its share in helping to create and maintain a prosperous
world-wide peace. Free enterprise, under a free Government, will
have the responsibility as well as the opportunity of giving to the
problems of employment, prosperity and security, the same brains,
the same vision and the same concentration, which it has given to
the problems of industrial science and production.
"The achievements of science in communication and aviation
have wiped out geographical barriers, and have made the world a
neighborhood in which no one's welfare can be separate from hie
neighbor's. When this war to save civilization is ended, there can
be no peace for us as a nation unless there is peace in the world as
a whole. "
Mr. Sarnoff said that the great hone for American prosper¬
ity and security in the post-war period, depends upon Government
cooperation with industry, labor and agriculture.
"While I realize the important place which Government must
have in the picture of American industry", said Mr, Sarnoff, "I
pleas for an American Charter for American business. If big business
is a crime, business men are entitled to know it. What is declared
lawful at one time should not at another be upset by the caprice of
bureaucracy. Laws should be changed by legislation, not by bureau¬
cratic fiat. "
Pointing to the vital importance of science in global war¬
fare, Mr. Sarnoff said that the degree of success in applying wartime
developments to a new world in peacetime, will be controlled by
social and economic forces over which science has no control.
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"The achievements of science end. industry hold out for us
the promise of a great post-war pro soe rity " , said Mr. Sarnoff, "but
only if the individual enterprise of our citizens makes it a pros¬
perity for all our oeoole, Peace for only a segment of the globe
and prosperity for only a section of our oeonle will not be enough.
Our constant efforts must be to make them universal. Neither indus¬
try alone nor labor alone nor agriculture alone can orovide pros¬
perity and security for all. But Government, which represents all
of us, can, in cooperation with industry, labor and agriculture, helo
to make the entire nation prosperous and secure. "
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ELMER DAVIS FINALLY DECIDES ON WEEKLY BROADCASTS
Elmer Davis, former ace CBS commentator, now head of the
Office of War Information, has finally decided to go on the air once
a week in a Government war broadcast. This type of broadcast is the
tning that made Mr. Davis famous and there are many in Washington
wno still feel he made a mistake in ever leaving it.
Mr. Davis announced earlier in the week he would being
these 15 minute broadcasts "as soon as arrangements with the radio
networks, now under consideration, are worked out".
Mr. Davis said the idea of a regular broadcast by OWI "has
been repeatedly suggested", and that he "now finds it possible to
undertake a weekly roundup of war information", adding that he has
received assurances from the broadcasting industry that the necessary
time will be available.
Mr, Davis described the broadcasts as a survey of the week
"intended to place the developments in persoective and try to give
the people a clear understanding of what is being done and why. "
News not previously made available generally will not be
included, he added.
Hearing that Mr. Davis would broadcast again, a columnist
addressed this question to him;
"Now that you’re going back on the radio for Government
sponsored talks, who's going to censor your remarks or is it possible
for the remarks of the chief censor of Government talk to be censor¬
ed?"
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TRADE NOTES
Thomas C. McCray, Assistant General Manager of Programs of
WTIC, Hartford, has been granted a leave of absence to serve under
J. Harold Ryan, Assistant Director of Censorship in Charge of Radio.
Mr. Cray’s new duties will include censoring short-wave material for
export.
Albert Halloway Reiber of Evanston, Ill. , Vice President of
the Teletype Corporation of Chicago, an affiliate of the American
Telephone and Telegraph Company, with which he had been connected for
many years, died Monday at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. ,
according to word received in New York. His age ms 49.
James Kane, recently Western Division Publicity Director
with headquarters at WBBM, Chicago, has returned to New York to serve
as an assistant of George Crandall, Director of Publicity. Mr. Kane
began his new duties about February 1st. Shepard Chartoc, formerly
of the Tom Fizdale organization replaced him in the Chicago offices.
Mr. Kane joined CBS almost nine years ago and was Night Editor in
CBS’ publicity department and then was put in charge of publicity
for some of Columbia’s top commercial accounts. In November, 1939,
Mr. Kane was appointed to the Chicago post.
Intercommunicating telephone sets and systems are expressly
made subject to the terms of General Conservation Order by the Dir¬
ector General for Operations. Manufacture of new telephone sets was
stoooed in November, 1942, except for special types designed for com¬
bat use. Although the order was intended to apply to all types of
telephone sets and has been so interpreted, a question has been rais¬
ed as to whether or not intercommunicating telephone equipment of
special design was affected by the order. This point is clarified
by the new order. The effect will be to establish uniform procedures
in respect to all types of sets manufactured for the domestic market.
Although nothing officially has been heard from it, a total
of $3,560 mostly in pennies is reoorted to have been received to date
by Mrs. Dennis Mullane of Staten Island, N. Y. , who made the golden
mistake on the Truth or Consequences NBC program in New York last
week. As a result of that single broadcast, she is reoorted to have
received 236,000 pieces of mail.
WOR’ s sales in the final week of January sent the WOR busi-
ness volume for the quarter ending January 31, 1943, up 20,$ over the
corresponding period last year. Four new accounts and four renewals
were signed during the week of January 25th.
The Associated Broadcasters, Inc., San Francisco, Calif.,
has applied for a construction permit for new International Broadcast
Station to be operated on 6060, 7230, 9570, 11870, 15290, 17760,
21610 kilocycles, power 50 kilowatts. Hours: share with WBOS and KWID
on 6060, 9570, 11870; and share with KWID on 7230, 15290, 17760,
21610 kilocycles.
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An order to cease and desist from misrepresentation in the
sale of household furniture hae been issued by the Federal Trade
Commission against S. & M. Grand Rapids Furniture Factories, Inc.,
123 Ferry St. , Newark, N. J. , also trading as S. & M. Grand Rapids
Furniture Co. , of Newark, New Jersey, and as Grand Rapids Showrooms.
Findings of the Commission are that the respondent corporation, which
is a retail distributor, has represented in newspaper and radio
advertisements and on signs, tags and labels that the furniture it
sells is manufactured by it and is made in Grand Rapids, Mich.,
when actually it has never owned nor operated a factory and at least
9G percent of its stock is made in places other than Grand Rapids.
James Mahoney, for the past five years associated with
Crossley, Inc,, has joined the Mutual Broadcasting System's Sales
Promotion Department as Chief Statistician.
Five-minute Coast-to-coa st network broadcast by Errol
Flynn, "thanking the American people for their tolerance" has been
prooosed by Warner Bros, in the event the actor is freed of current
criminal charges against him on the Coast, Variety reoorts.
Suggestion was made a week ago by Charles Einfeld Warner,
vp in charge of advertising and publicity, to the J. Walter Thompson
agency. The agency expressed the view that time for such a program
could probably not be bought, and nothing further has been heard of
the matter. As explained by Einfeld, the plan would call for Flynn
to reiterate his plea of innocence of the statutory charges and to
call the case a demonstration of American democratic methods."
Criminal charges growing out of the late Dr. John R.
Brinkley's hospital business in Little Rock, Arkansas, according to
an Associated Press dispatch, were settled in United States District
Court, when his widow and a former chief assistant paid fines of
$5,000 each and with four other persons were placed on probation for
three years for using the mails to defraud.
Dr. H. Dwight Osborne, who operated the hospital establish¬
ed by the gland specialist and medical broadcaster, after Dr.
Brinkley moved to Del Rio, Tex., pleaded guilty to the mail fraud
cnarge. Mrs. Brinkley, Dr. J. H. Davis, Dr. 0. B. Chandler, Dr. A.
Lewis Kline and Cnie f Nurse Vera Wederbrook pleaded nolo contendere
(no defense).
The court dismissed a second mail fraud indictment against
the group and perjury indictments against Drs. Davis, Chandler, Kline
and Miss Wederbrook.
Formation of a Speakers' Bureau, to coordinate all public¬
speaking activities of NBC staff members, was recently announced by
Frank E. Mullen, Vice President and General Manager. Albert E. Dale,
NBC Director of the Department of Information, will head the Bureau
with Anita Barnard as supervisor of operations.
The Speakers9 Bureau will handle all routine requests for
NBC speakers from outside organizations and groups in the Eastern
Division. In addition, the Bureau will give special attention to
requests of national organizations who wish to have NBC representa¬
tives on convention programs and at other business gatherings where
the story of broadcasting or of NBC operations will be of interest.
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TO BROADCAST VETERAN WIRELESS CEREMONIES
Ceremonies at the 18th annual dinner of the Veteran Wire¬
less Operators' Association, at which communications officers of the
various armed forces are to be honored, will be broadcast by NBC,
Thursday, February 11 at 11:15 P.M. from the Hotel Astor.
Plaques are to be awarded to Maj. Gen. Dawson Olmstead,
Chief Signal Officer, U. S. Army; Col. A. W, Marriner, Communications
Chief of the Army Air Forces; Capt. E. M. Webster, Chief Communica¬
tions officer of the Coast Guard; and Capt. Carl F. Holden, Director
of Naval Communications. A special medal also will be awarded to
Gen. Follett Bradley, Commanding General of the First Air Force,
Mitchell Field. William J. McGonigle, President of the V.W.O.A, ,
will present the awards.
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CBS AND BBC TO PRESENT EXCHANGE SERIES
The Columbia Broadcasting System and the British Broad¬
casting Corporation launch an exchange series of thirteen programs
titled "Transatlantic Call: People to People " on Sunday, February 7,
( WABC-CBS , 12:00 to 12:30 Noon, EWT).
The new series is designed to bring the two great nations
closer together and to tell the people of each country how their
friends and allies are living, working and fighting.
Ronald Colman, star of many Hollywood screen epics, acts
as narrator on the American programs. Bob Trout, Columbia's corres¬
pondent in London, takes over the narrating Job on the British broad¬
casts.
The programs will be alternated weekly and presented simply
and directly in order to provide a maximum of understanding to both
audiences. They will mirror life as it is in various sections of
both countries, trying to show the American and the Englishman ex¬
actly what the other fellow is like.
"People With Jobs" is the title of the first program, which
will come from England. It originates in industrial North England
and like all programs of the series from Great Britain is an actual
on-the-scene broadcast.
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2400 CALIFORNIA STREET WASHINGTON, D. C.
INDEX TO ISSUE OF FEBRUARY 9, 1943
Congressional Ordeal Ahead For Alleged ^CC Reds . 1
New High Power Canadian SW Station Proposed . 2
Super War Cabinet Would Control Communications
Tube Replacements For Civilian Radio Sets Soon
Philco Wins Advertising Award., .
OPA Issues New Advertising Rules .
Scophony Television Corporation vormed In New York,
Recognition Proposed For Radio And Press War Heroes
Asserts "Profit Motive" Held Up Radar .
House "Court" To Try Alleged Reds Employed By U. S. .
Small Radio Station Reports Still Not In .
National Grange Favors Clear Channels
Diathermy Apparatus Distributors Cited . . . 9
Trade Notes . . . 10
Daytime Serials O.K. , Physicians Find . 11
No. 1502
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February 9, 1943.
CONGRESSIONAL ORDEAL AHEAD FOR ALLEGED FCC REDS
Although the amendment is subject to reconsideration before
the appropriation bill itself is finally passed, the House voting
last week 163 to 111 to forbid the treasury’s further employment of
William Pickens, a colored specialist in securities promotion, and
alleged communist, foreshadows what Goodwin B. Watson, Chief Broad¬
cast Analyst and Frederick L. Schuman, Chief Political Analysts,
both of the Federal Communications Commission and both charged with
Communistic beliefs will be up against when their cases come up for
consideration. Also Messrs. Watson and Schuman are assured of the
scrutiny of the new committee of five members Just established by
President Roosevelt to handle complaints of subversive activity by
Federal employees. This Committee, the purpose of which is believed
to be on the Hill to checkmate Representative Dies, has, however,
failed to satisfy the demands of Congress for a housecleaning.
"What we need is fewer investigations and more action on
investigations already made", commented Representative Hendrids ( D. ) ,
of Florida. "Congress expects to press this fight until real action
is taken and we are not going to accept a whitewash by any Board."
Chairman Dies ( D. ) , of Texas of the House Committee on Un-
American Activities, expressed the view that instead of a committee
of departmental officials which the President appointed, the public
would have "more confidence" in a Board composed of representatives
of the American Legion, the C.I.O. and A. F. L. and business groups.
The President’s committee, set up, within the Justice
Department, consists of Herbert Gaston, Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury; Oscar L„ Chapman, Assistant Secretary of Interior; Rudolph
M. Evans, Member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors; Francis C.
Brown, Solicitor of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and
John Q,. Cannon, Jr. , Legal Adviser to the Civil Service Commission.
The House last year tried to get rid of Dr. Watson by cut¬
ting off his salary but failed. However, this year he will face a
different Congress - one with blood in its eye for the Administration
and the New Deal - and it will not be surprising if after the fight
is over, both Watson and Schuman one way or another will find them¬
selves separated from their Government Jobs. ^here is sure to be a
stormy session when the names of these two come up in connection
with the Independent Offices Bill, which includes their salaries and
others of the FCC.
Adding his approval to the amendment to hold up the pay of
Pickens in the Treasury bill and others against whom Dies has made
charges as the various appropriations bills are reported, which carry
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their salaries, Representative Hendricks declared:
"I am going to vote for this amendment. My leaders, my
chairman, the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Woodrum) , said we had
a way to get at this. We had an instance of that last year in the
case of one, Goodwin Watson, whose name was brought before us and
whose case was acted upon in this House. We kicked him out of the
Communications Commission, we thought, but he is still in the Com¬
munications Commission. That is all that happened. "
Except, Representative Hendricks might have added, that
since then Dr. Watson has secured a substantial raise in pay.
Arguing for a previous amendment which would have included
the other 38 charged by Representative Dies, as well as Pickens,
Representative Hendricks said:
"When the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Dies) made his report
to this House the other day and submitted tne very names that I am
giving you today every Member of tnis House rose to his feet and
cneered, showing their confidence in tne Dies committee,
"Today, when I submit tnose names for you to take action,
what do I find? Not only my chairman but the leaders on both sides
saying, 'This is not the way to do it'. Every time we have attempt¬
ed to do something about these people who we are convinced are Com¬
munists, somebody has said, 'There is another way to do it. ' As
long as I have been here, I have not seen that other way to do it.
I have been asked by Members on both sides to withdraw this amendment
and to submit one name. I am going to submit the one name if this
amendment is not adopted, but I am going down fighting on this amend¬
ment. I am not going to withdraw it. As far as I am concerned, I am
going to let the Members of this House take the responsibility."
Representative Dies contended that in some cases such per¬
sons had been ousted from one agency only to be employed by another.
To meet this situation, which Hendricks called "hedge-hop¬
ping", the House wrote into a Treasury Appropriation Bill a stipula¬
tion that the department should not use any of its funds to hire
persons whose pay might be withheld in subsequent legislation deal¬
ing with other departments.
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NEW HIGH POWER CANADIAN SW STATION PROPOSED
A high-power, short-wave transmitter station is proposed
at Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada, according to the Commerce
Department. The estimated cost, including installation, purchase of
land, and housing, is $800,000.
The station is to consist of two 50-kilowatt short-wave
transmitters, with three directional antennas and associated appar¬
atus,
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SUPER WAR CABINET WOULD CONTROL COMMUNICATIONS
Under the one wing of the proposed setup of the super War
Cabinet, which the President Is expected to create, would be the
Board of War Communications and the Federal Communications Commis¬
sion. Also the Office of War Information, the Office of Censorship
and the Office of Coordinator of Inter- American Affairs. Accord¬
ing to the latest reports, the members of the new Cabinet would be
Bernard Baruch, price Administrator James Byrnes, Donald Nelson,
Harry Hopkins and Admiral William D. Leahy, Jr.
The main reason given for the creation of the new War
Board is to take some of the responsibility off the President's
shoulders. Behind the scenes it is reported that pressure is being
exerted to have President Roosevelt depend less on Admiral Leahy.
The arguments set forth against the Admiral are that he Is too old,
too reactionary, and ultimately would prove a liability to the
President in the 1944 elections.
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TUBE REPLACEMENTS FOR CIVILIAN RADIO SETS SOON
The WPB Radio and Radar Division has, for some time, been
working on a program to provide for the manufacture of radio tubes
for civilian use. It is being developed in coordination with the
military program,
"This is now nearing completion", Robert P. Almy, Manager
of Sylvania distributor sales, writes in the Sylvanla. News. "It
is expected that a list of slightly over one hundred most important
types will be released for production, which will provide replace¬
ments for approximately 90$ of the essential radio receivers in the
country.
"The theme of letters being received dally from the trade
by all tube manufacturers runs: 'What's the story on radio tubes -
I've got sets on ray floor all repaired and ready for delivery,
except that I can't deliver because they require such and such
tubes - I don't have any, ray regular jobber doesn't have them, I've
tried elsewhere with the same answer - Don't you realize that I'm
being forced out of business - I can’t even find substitute types -
What am I going to do - Why doesn't Washington do something - etc.1
"We firmly believe that everyone who has to do with the
radio tube industry, including the WPB, tne OWI, and the military
autnorities, now recognizes that radio sets should be kept in opera¬
tion and that replacement parts and tubes are a necessary civilian *
requirement, second only to military needs.
"What the Government needs and asks of us is what we must
deliver. The manner in which we have 'delivered' is typified by the
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Army-Navy ,SE" Flag which we proudly fly. On the other hand, if we
can do the job for the military which is needed and expected of us
and still manufacture a reasonable quantity of tubes for essential
civilian requirements, we want to do it and you can depend on us to
provide as many civilian tubes as conditions will permit.
HMost everyone knows that, under priority regulations in
effect since October 3, 1942, we have not been permitted to deliver
radio tubes except on a priority rating of A- 3 or higher. Jobbers
are limited in the amount of inventory that they may carry and the
tubes and types they may order. ^o obtain tubes for civilian use,
they must file applications with the WPB for preference ratings
before they can place orders with manufacturers. At first this
caused some little confusion and delay; however, at the present time
the system is working out very well. w
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PHIL CO WINS ADVERTISING AWARD
The radio awards at the annual Advertising Awards dinner
in New York last week were:
1, An advertiser, agency, broadcast facility, or individual,
who by contemporary service has added to the knowledge or technique
of radio advertising - Medal award: Archibald M. Crossley.
2. An advertiers, agency, broadcast facility, or Individual,
for outstanding skill in commercial program production - Medal
award: Young & Rubicam, Inc., for The March of Time program (Time,
Inc. ) .
3. An advertiser, agency, broadcast facility, or individual,
for excellence of commercial announcement s - No award.
4, An advertiser or agency for a commercially sponsored pro¬
gram which contributes most to the advancement of radio advertising
as a social force - Medal award: Sayre M. Ramsdell and Associates,
Inc. , for The Secret Weapon program (Philco Radio Radio and Tele¬
vision Corporation),
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OPA ISSUES NEW ADVERTISING RULES
New rules by the Office of Price Administration, which
must be observed by producers who state the retail price of their
own products in advertisements, were announced as follows:
1, When a national producer mentions the retail price of his
product in newspaper, magazine and radio advertisements, he need
not include a statement saying that the retail price mentioned in
the advertisement cannot be charged by retailers whose individual
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ceilings are below the price mentioned. But this rule has a qual-
ification if the advertisement lists the names of the retailers sell¬
ing the product at the advertised price.
In case the names of the retailers are listed in an
advertisement giving the retail price, the producer sponsoring
the advertisement is himself responsible for a violation if the
retailer in selling at the advertised price exceeds his own maximum
price, unless the advertisement Itself contains a statement that the
mentioned price cannot be charged by any named outlet whose ceiling
is below the mentioned price. Of course, a retailer who sells above
his ceiling is guilty of a violation even if he sold at a price
mentioned In the producer’s advertisement,
2. When a producer sends a retailer "copy” or "mats” which
mention the retail price to be used in advertising the producer’s
products for sale in the retailer’s store, the producer should
notify the retailer that he can use the "copy" or "mat" with the
mentioned retail price only if the mentioned price does not exceed
the retailer’s ceiling. Only if the manufacturer gives this notice
to the retailer does he free himself of any responsibility in case
the retailer violates his own ceiling by selling at the mentioned
price.
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SCOPHONY TELEVISION CORPORATION FORMED IN NEW YORK
It was announced in New York Monday that the Scophony
Corporation of America had been formed by General Precision Equip¬
ment Corporation, formerly General Theatres Equipment Corporation,
and Television Productions, Inc., subsidiary of Paramount Pictures,
In association with Scophony, Ltd, , of London, It was said the new
corporation controls the Western Hemisphere rights for the "super-
sonic" television system developed by the British company in four-
teen years of research.
Large-screen television projection and easy adaptability
to color presently will be available to Americans in homes, schools,
churches, restaurants and motion-picture theatres, according to
Arthur Levey, President of the new company.
The Scophony Corporation of America is an independent
American comoany and Its five directors are all American citizens,,
Mr, Levey said. In addition to Mr. Levey, the Board of Directors
includes Joseph E. Swan, partner in E. F. Hutton & Co. ; Franklin
Field, Director of Piper Aircraft Company and Chief Operations
Adviser of the Outpost Division of the OWI; Paul Raibourn, Presi¬
dent of Television Productions, Inc. , and Earle G. Hines, President
of the General Precision Equipment Corporation.
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RECOGNITION PROPOSED FOR RADIO AND PRESS WAR HEROES
A proposal has been made by the Editor and Publisher that
American radio and press corresoondents, who risk their livei daily
on the battlefronts, be decorated for historic acts performed in
line of duty*
"What about some kind of recognition for the news and
radio news folks who are taking all the risks of war in order to
tell the war story to the world?” the Editor and Publisher asks.
”We haven’t any hard-set ideas on what should He the reward for
heroic news duty well done or for wounds received in line of that
duty. Probably no citation form or medal award could be made to
apply to all cases - but we do believe that either the field com¬
manders, the national government, or the organized newspaper busi¬
ness should have some ready mechanism for rewarding newspaper 'work
that is performed at necessary risk of life,
”Who should make the awards : There is a question which
should have plenty of thought. Offhand, it would seem that the
Government has enough on its hands in fighting the war without hav¬
ing to worry about providing cheat ribbons and medals for reporters
and radio broadcasters.
”We suggest that a Joint newspaper- radio board be set up
to consider citations of their people by the military and naval
authorities. Such a board might, conceivably, recommend to the
President that such and such an act appears worthy of a military
decoration. It might Judge that another act was worthy of a non-
military award to be provided either by a Government bureau or by
the newspaper or radio industries, Jointly or separately.”
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ASSERTS ’’PROFIT MOTIVE” HELD UP RADAR
In a study made for the American Council of Public
Affairs, Dr. Lyman Chalkley, head economic analyst of the Board of
Economic Warfare, was quoted as saying that the- development of
radar was held back before the war because there didn’t seem to be
any profit in it. Dr. Chalkley used radar as an example in his
contention that the ’’profit economy” has not always been equal to
the demands of war.- The profit principle, he said, ”has not always
provided the things which nations have needed to combat Influences
and forces considered uncivilized and barbarous * * * and there
did not appear to be any profitable major peacetime uses for radar.
Therefore, it was not subjected to the intensive practical develop¬
ment given potentially profitable inventions. So, with the war, we
had to start almost from scratch, meanwhile losing ships and planes
and men because the profit motive had not guided up to the develop¬
ment of radar from the stage of laboratory curiosity to the manu¬
facture of practical instruments.”
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HOUSE "COURT w TO TRY ALLEGED REDS EMPLOYED BY U. S.
Paying no heed to the order of President Roosevelt appoint¬
ing a five man Commission to investigate and determine the truth of
charges made by Representative Martin Dies that the Government was
honey-combed with radicals, the House on Monday virtually agreed
to create its own five man Committee to Investigate the subversive
cnarges against the 38 Federal employees named by Mr. Dies, which
include Dr. Goodwin Watson and Frederick L. Schuman of the Federal
Communications Commission. Although the exact method has evidently
not been determined, there seemed to be no doubt from the hullabaloo
the House raised about the matter Monday - devoting practically all
afternoon to it in the wildest session this season, that the
membership favored "purging” the Government of any communistic or
subversive employees. For a time the entire appropriation bill
seemed to be placed in jeopardy, which almost caused a panic among
the party leaders.
The explosion in the House was touched off by argument
over an amendment adopted last Friday denying further Federal funds
to William Pickens, a negro, a treasury employee, because of accus¬
ations by the Dies Committee that he had been connected with
Communist- ^ront organizations.
Representative Knutson, ( R) , of Minnesota, chided the
House for its action on Mr. Pickens, "singling out this one poor
colored man".
Representative Hendricks ( D) , of Florida, stating that
"any man from the South doesn’t call a colored man fMr . • "told the
House he was unaware that Mr. Pickens was colored when the question
of his affiliations first arose, offering as proof ’the fact that I
referred to him as ’Mr.* Pickens":
"And as for all this talk about giving him his day in
court", Mr. Hendricks shouted, "I want to talk to you gentlemen
about courts. "
Even if the individuals under discussion were "given their
day in court", he said, that would not necessarily remove from them
the stigma of being anti-American,
"We had a trial out on the Coast last week", he said.
"Errol Flynn, the movie actor, had his day in court - and was
acquitted.
"But would any of you good gentlemen in this House want
your daughters to take a trip on his yacht with Mr. Errol Flynn?"
It was at this Juncture that Chairman Clarence Cannon of
the Appropriations Committee, ignoring the President’s Committee,
revealed plans for the special sub-committee of five members to
give "a fair and impartial" trial to men and women in the Government
service and that Dies has charged with being "crackpot bureaucrats
with Communist sympathies. "
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The new plan, Mr. Cannon explained, would give Congress
an opportunity to take summary action ’’without delay” against the
accused if the findings of the subcommittee Justified it.
’’The only way to reach these people now”, he declared, ”ie
through the long and tortuous procedure of curtailing appropriations
for their services. We should not leave these people in the service
any longer if they are guilty.”
Every one of the accused, Mr. Cannon said, would be given
an opportunity to present a defense.
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SMALL RADIO STATION REPORTS STILL NOT IN
Asked if there was anything new in the negotiations with
the advertisers of small stations, Chairman James L. ^ly said:
”No, We are getting up a little bit closer on the prob¬
lem. That is all. It is basically the same. Incidentally there
are some few, pernaps I should say a substantial number, of sta¬
tions who have not got in their returns yet, and we are going to
have to close the book probably this week because we don’t want to
delay consideration of the problem from the standpoint of the
industry as a whole because of the failure of some small portion
of the stations to get in the information. I do wish they would
get their information in now.”
"Is there any progress report which would indicate in any
measure the success of the informational survey set up by the FCC
on the equipment?” the Chairman was asked.
"I don't have any formal report, but my impression is that
it is working quite successfully”, he replied.
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NATIONAL GRANGE FAVORS CLEAR CHANNELS
As presented to Congress by Senator Capper of Kansas, the
legislative program of the National Grange for 19*43 carries the
following with regard to radio broadcasting:
"Since the major prooortion of the farm homes of the
Nation depend upon service from 'clear channel’ radio stations, we
oppose any action to reduce the number of these stations in order to
give more service to the large centers of population, which are
already well supplied. ”
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2/9/43
DIATHERMY APPARATUS DISTRIBUTORS CITED
Misrepresentation of the provisions of an order issued
by the Federal Communications Commission and unfair end deceDtive
acts in commerce are charged in a complaint iesued by the Federal
Trade Commission against two distributors of home diathermy appara¬
tus and two officials of the companies. The respondents are Home
Diathermy Co., Inc., 1780 Broadway, New York, Home Diathermy Co.,
Inc., 15 Public Square, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and Arnold Steindler and
Isa do re Teitelbaum.
Both corporate respondents operate a factory at 1780
Broadway, New York, and the respondents Steindler and Teitelbaum
are, respectively, president and secretary-treasurer of the corpor¬
ate respondents. For several years they have been selling, distrib¬
uting and servicing an electrical device designated "Home Diathermy"
recommended by them for treatment of various ailments and diseases.
In May, 1942, the Federal Communications Commission issued
an order directing all private or non-government owners of appara¬
tus designed for generating radio frequency energy for therapeutic
purposes to register such devices with the Federal Communications
Commission. Forms sent to owners of devices contained application
for registration, the numbers of each set and other descriptive
matter.
The complaint charges that the respondents have dissemin¬
ated deceptive and misleading statements and representations with
respect to the requirements provided by the order, these representa¬
tions being sent by letters to purchasers of their machines and made
in oral statements by the respondents. Typical of such statements,
the complaint charges, is a letter signed by E. Sherber, Home
Diathermy Ca, Inc. , which reads in part: "We are at this time noti¬
fying you about an order that was issued by Federal Communications
Commission * * due to the fact that enemy aliens in the United
States are using Short Wave Diathermy to transmit illegal messages
to the enemies of our country. Since it would be a very costly and
lengthy procedure to track down each and every person * * who own
diathermy units, the government has ordered that anyone owning a
diathermy * * must fill out forms * *w, calling for, among other
things, exact frequency, exact kilocycles, power input and output,
type and serial number of tubes, "In other words, a thorough calibr¬
ation. To do this your unit must be brought to our factory. * *
This new Federal Communications Commission ruling is very costly to
us since we must take our mechanics from their usual work to spend
a few hours on each unit * * We therefore feel that by us being will-r
ing to cooperate with you that you in appreciation would willingly
defray part of the expense. "
After fixing the total cost of this service and shipping
charges at $10, the letter stated: "Since you are the owner of an
apparatus and have been Informed as to what the order calls for -
that if said apparatus is not registered, it may be confiscated or
you may be penalized $10,000. We have reported this to you and
therefore the burden of responsibility is with you. * *"
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The complaint charges that these statements and repre¬
sentations are false and misleading and deceptive; that it is not
necessary that diathermy machines be calibrated or any servicing
or adjustments made to permit full compliance with the requirements
of the Federal Communications Commission; it is not necessary that
machines be sent to the respondents' factory in New York or any
other factory for the purpose of calibration and it never has been
necessary for owners of diathermy machines to pay any money or com¬
pensation of any nature to the respondents or any other person as a
prerequisite for compliance with the Federal Communications Commis¬
sion order.
Twenty days are granted the respondents for answering the
complaint.
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TRADE NOTES
Quarterly dividends on the outstanding shares of Radio
Corooration of America S3. 50 First Preferred stock and outstanding
shares of "B" Preferred stock, were declared and announced by David
Sarnoff, President of the Radio Corporation of America. ^he divi¬
dend on the First Preferred stock is 87-g- per share, and the divid¬
end on the "B" Preferred stock is Si. 25 per share.
The Office of Censorshio has consolidated regulations
governing all international communications in a step which replaced
with a single code the previously separate rules for postal, cable
and telephone censorship. The new single set of regulations covers
all press dispatches, periodicals, books, private and business let¬
ters, cablegrams, radiograms, telephone messages and other communi¬
cations leaving the United States. It includes a list of topics
which may not be mentioned in communications to foreigh countries
and wnich parallels the press code for voluntary censorship.
Industrial leaders and college officials from many sec¬
tions of the country will meet in Washington Wednesday (February 10)
to talk over ways of getting college-trained women into specialized
war jobs as speedily as possible. The sessions have been arranged
by Dr. Kathryn McHale , General Director of the American Association
of University Women. Approximately 50 women's colleges and more
than 20 important war production industries will be represented,
including the Victor Division of tne RCA, A. T. & T. and the Bell
Telepnone Laboratories.
A rule requiring owners of radio sets to turn in their
old tubes when they buy new ones is being worked out by the WPB and
will probably go into effect soon, the Sylvan la News reports. The
tube turn-in regulation is intended to control the number of tubes
distributed. It also will permit the salvaging of tube bases which,
in some cases, can be refabricated.
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DAYTIME SERIALS O.K, , PHYSICIANS FIND
The virtues of radio daytime serials far outweigh their
snortcomings, it was declared by an Advisory Committee of three
well known physicians recently appointed by the National Broadcast¬
ing Company to study the morale qualities of network broadcasting.
A scientific evaluation of daytime serials demonstrates,
the physicians reported, that they feature problems which are
essentially the problems of ordinary American life. The tendency
of daytime serials is towards solutions generally accepted as
ethical in present society and hence, the committee found, their
effects are helpful rather than harmful.
'•They seem to fill a real demand for a public of consider¬
able size and their shortcomings are heavily overweighed by their
virtues", said the Committee in a preliminary report on the daytime
serials.
The Committee was headed by Dr. Morris Flshbein, Editor
of the Journal of the American Medical Association and a leader in
the field of public health. The other members were Dr. Henry R.
Viets, noted Boston neurologist and lecturer on Neurology at the
Harvard Medical School, and Dr. Winfred Overholser, a well known
psychiatrist and Professor of Psychiatry at George Washington Univ¬
ersity School of Medicine and Superintendent of St. Elizabeth’s
Hospital, both in Washington, D. C. The Committee was under the
supervision of Dr. James Rowland Angell, Public Service Counsellor
of the National Broadcasting Company.
The Committee reported:
"The psychologic problems which are featured in the daytime
serial dramas studied are essentially the problems of daily life:
love, marriage, divorce, ambition, adoption, illness, parent-child
adjustments, occasionally greed, envy, deceit, misappropriation of
money, but altogether in no undue propo rat ions. The listeners
identify themselves and their own major and minor crises with the
cnaracters of these dramas. Since, however, the tendency of all the
dramas studied is toward the solutions that are generally accepted
as ethical in our social existence, the effects of the dramas tends
towards helpfulness rather than harm. "
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2400 CALIFORNIA STREET WASHINGTON, D. C.
INDEX TO ISSUE OF FEBRUARY IS, 1943
Radio And Press Cooperation Magnificent, Says Censor....... . 1
Radio And Electronic Parts Specifications Sought . 3
House Heats G-ridiron For Walter Winchell . ..4
Congress Likely To Be Divided Over Blue Net Curb . . . 5
Davis Seeks Time To Prepare Broadcasts . 6
FCC Employees Included In House '’Radicals” Probe . 7
Denies FCC Order Blow To Freedom Of Speech
House Favors Western Union-Postal Merger..,
Trade Note s. . . . . . 9
McClintock, MBS Head, Outlines 1943 Expansion Plan . 10
Trammell Says Radio And Press Are Not Competitors . 11
Crosley Corporation Pay tribute To Women Workers . 11
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RADIO AND PRESS COOPERATION MAGNIFICENT, SAYS CENSOR
The highest praise was given to the way in which the
broadcasters and newspapers have worked with the Office of Censor¬
ship by Byron Price, its Director. It was at a conference at which
was issued the second revision of the voluntary codes of Wartime
Practices for the American Press and Broadcasters. With Mr. Price
was J. Harold Ryan, Assistant Director of Censorship in Charge of
Broadcasting.
Someone had asked if there had been any instances of news¬
papers or stations not conforming to the censorsnip code.
"To the contrary", Director Price replied, "the newspapers
and the broadcasters have been singularly cooperative. They have
really been magnificent - there is no other word for it. "
Mr. Price called particular attention to a direction in¬
side the cover of the revised Code which underlines previously pub¬
lished advice to bring all doubtful press censorship instances to
the Office of Censorship. Tne new note says:
"The Code of Wartime Practices is issued pursuant to
Instructions by the President, who commissioned the Office of Censor¬
ship to supervise domestic voluntary censorship.
"You are reminded that whenever anyone else, in any part
of the country, makes a request which appears unreasonable or out of
harmony with the Code, you are at liberty to appeal at once to the
Office of Censorship.
"Much confusion would be avoided if such appeals were more
frequent. "
"I think the broadcasters and the editors would be sur¬
prised to know how many times we have stepped in to help them when
some such person as a sheriff or other unauthorized official has
taken it on himself to try to keep something off the air or out of
the newspapers. "
Nat R. Howard, Assistant Director of Censorship, followed
Mr. Price in explaining principal additions to the newspaper code.
Mr. Ryan told of cnanges which had been made in the radio code.
Explaining that there were 150 stations broadcasting in
29 languages, Mr. Ryan said that probably the most significant
cnange affecting domestic broadcasters is the incorporation of new
principles to guide foreign language station managers in their
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voluntary censorship efforts. A new section is added for this pur¬
pose which reads:
"The Office of Censorship, by direction of the President,
is charged with the re sponsibility of removing from the air all
those engaged in foreign language broadcasting who. in the judgment
of appointed authorities in the Office of censorship, endanger the
war effort of the United Nations by their connections, direct or
indirect, with the medium. Bases of judgment in exercising this
function will be twofold: (l) current material written for broad¬
cast or broadcast over American facilities; (2) past an/or present
conduct of the individual, including evidence substantiating his
sympathy with the regimes of our enemies. This function of the
Office of Censorship is not intended to relieve in any measure the
full responsibility resting with the management of the foreign
language broadcasting station to employ only those whose loyalty he
does not question. There extends to such broadcast management the
additional responsibility to report to the Office of Censorship the
names of any personnel in tnis field who might be suspected for any
reason, 15
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to was with regard to presidential and diplomatic broadcasts:
"Information about the movements of the President of the
United States (including advance notice of the place from which he
will broadcast); Information of official military or diplomatic
missions of the United States or of any other nation opposing the
Axis powers - routes, schedules, destination, within or without
continental United States; movements of ranking Army or Naval
officers and staffs on official missions; movements of other
individuals or units on military or diplomatic missions. Premature
disclosure of diplomatic negotiations or converse tions, ,?
Mr, Ryan pointed out that the Program Section of the
Broadcasters 5 Code contains one new paragraph, dealing with simul¬
ated air raids and blackouts. It advises broadcasters not to employ
their facilities during these simulated events in such a way that
listeners would grow to depend on the radio for assistance in the
event of an actual air raid. During an actual air raid, stations
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command. The paragraph adds, however, "This is intended to place
no proscription on the legitimate broadcast of descriptions and
commentaries dealing with simulated air raids and blackouts after
tne events have been conducted. "
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reports, letters to the editor, personal and society news (which
often discloses military or diplomatic movements or identity
restricted herein), and commentators and columnists who deal both
with news and circulated reports. The Code does not limit specula¬
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RADIO AND ELECTRONIC PARTS SPECIFICATIONS SOUGHT
Under the guidance of the War Production Board* the Armed
Services are working out a series of agreements to assure the use
of single sets of specifications in the production of component
parts for radio and electronic equipment for the Army and the Navy*
the War Production Board has announced. The program, part of which
has been completed, covers a long list of insulating materials and
electronic components.
Use of the same specifications in the production of com¬
ponents for the Army and the Navy, WPB officials pointed out, will
provide for the interchangeability of many replacement parts
destroyed in battle.
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swift manufacture will be eliminated. Where there are separate
specifications by the Army and Navy, there must also be separate
tests of the components. Under the present program, single agencies
are chosen to try out these components for the Army and Navy.
Given different specification, the manufacturer must dif¬
ferentiate his production processes and must maintain separate
stocks. The joint program unifies production methods in a given
plant and allows the merging of previously segregated inventories.
At the request of the WPB and with the cooperation of
the Army, the Navy, the Institute of Radio Engineers, prime and sub¬
contractors, the American Standards Association organized the War
Committee on Radio, headed by Sidney K. Wolf of the WPB Radio Divi¬
sion, The task of this committee, on which are represented the
Armed Services, civilian Government agencies, industry, professional
organizations and the ASA, is to decide what specific jobs are to be
done and to assign responsibility for doing them.
The War Committee organized sub-committees to draft
specifications on particular components and materials. Task groups
were formed by the sub-committees to handle parts of the job. For
example, the subcommittee on crystals and holders has task groups
working separately on physical characteristics, specifications and
testing, and reference test circuits.
Specifications have been completed on fixed mica-dielectric
capacitors cutting down the number of types from 10,000 to 2,000.
Agreement by the Armed Services on specifications for electrical
indicating instruments have reduced the number of types from 90,000
to 2,100, These reductions in types will materially increase pro¬
duction, Mr, Wolf stated.
The sub-committee on Insulating materials, through its
task groups, will set specifications on radio insulators of ceramics,
steatite, porcelain, glass, glass bonded mica and of filling and
impregnating insulating materials, plastics, and plastic communica¬
tions components.
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The sub-committee on fixed capacitors, which completed
its work on mica types, is drafting specifications on ceramic,
paper and electrolytic capacitors* The sub-committee on variable
capacitors will work out specifications on variable receiver,
variable transmitter and trimmer capacitors.
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units. The sub-committee on fixed resistors has task groups at
work on fixed composition, fixed wire wound end Instrument tyoe
resistors* The sub-committee on variable resistors is drafting
specifications on variable comoosition and variable wire-wound
re slstors.
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audio frequency transformers and radio frequency transformers. The
sub-committee on tube-sockets is at work on receiving tube, trans¬
mitters and cathode ray tube sockets.
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and receptacles. Single cell batteries and multicell batteries are
covered by the sub-committee on dry batteries. Another sub-commit¬
tee covers vibrator power supplies,
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HOUSE HEATS GRIDIRON FOR WALTER WINCHELL
Apparently everything is set to go ahead next week with
the House Naval Affairs Committee inquiry as to the exact status
of Walter Winchell, the radio commentator,, as a reserve officer in
the Navy. It all came about through Mr. Wincnell in a recent
broadcast referring to citizens who voted to re-elect pre-Pearl
Harbor isolationists to Congress as "damned fools".
At this writing, next Tuesday, February 16th, appears
to be the day the hearings will start, but this has not been con¬
firmed officially. Secretary Knox is to be the first. Mr. Winchell
expects to be in Washington at that time and it seems likely that
he may also be called upon to testify.
Secretary Knox had previously reported to the Committee
that statements attributed to Mr. Winchell while on naval duty by
Representative Hoffman, of Michigan, were "not considered as
scandalous conduct tending to the destruction of good morals".
The Knox reoort was filed by Chairman Vinson of the Naval
Affairs Committee, who had referred to the Navy Department a series
of questions propounded by Mr. Hoffman in a resolution introduced
last Tuesday.
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The resolution charged that the columnist end radio com¬
mentator, wnile an officer in the Navy, made contemptuous remarks
about Congress and asked why he had not been punished under the
United States code providing court-martial ounishment for any one
in the Navy guilty of "profane swearing, falsehood * * * or any
other scandalous conduct tending to the destruction of good morals,"
XXXXXXXXXX
CONGRESS LIKELY TO BE DIVIDED OVER BLUE NET CURB
It seems likely that In the House Naval Affairs Committee
inve stigation of Walter Winchell’ s broadcasts, and possibly later
on the floor of the House and Senate, there may be spirited dis¬
cussion of the tightening of censorshlo by Mark Woods, President
of the Blue Network of the broadcasts of Mr. Wincliell, and also
Drew Pearson, another well-known commentator. There is likely to
be quite a. difference of opinion over it in Congress. Some will
favor such censorship and others will be against It.
While not mentioning either Mr. Winchell or Mr. Pearson
by name, Mr. Woods said that "several commentators have recently
departed from their prepared scripts to discuss controversial
Issues in a biased and inflammatory manner. " Mr. Woods added
that such broadcasts "must be in good taste".
He explained that the National Association of Broadcasters’
code forbade discussion of controversial subjects on commercial pro¬
grams. In addition to this a memorandum directed the commentators
not to make "derogatory or insulting remarks" about any member of
Congress "or any other person holding any public office".
Walter Winchell now in Florida, was the first to be heard
from saying:
"The only thing left Is the newspaper. I hope the news¬
papers will fight harder for freedom which the radio has so meekly
surrende re d.
"The Blue Network has been very liberal and generous, and
I can’t squawk. They reminded me that there were certain rules
that must be followed. They told me they knew I wanted to stay on
the radio and they wanted to help me stay.
"However, the fact remains that certain people would like
to stop Drew Pearson and me, and my fangs have been removed and my
typewriter fingers rapped with the butt of a gun. "
Mr. Pearson said that his only previous difference with
the network occurred last Spring when he was not permitted "to
break exclusively" the Edward J. Flynn paving block story.
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"Aside from this incident the Blue Network has been
extremely broad-minded”, said Pearson* "Hence my difficulties in
understanding the sudden censorship of last Sunday whereby a com¬
mentator is not permitted to criticize a member of Congress or a
group of Congress such as the Dies Committee or the silver bloc or
a member of the President's Cabinet who may be delinquent on sup¬
plying the Nation with rubber.
"I feel sure that the Blue Network will eventually agree
that free and fair criticism is essential in a democracy and will
not again go so far as to bar the quotation of a Suoreme Court
decision criticizing an important aide in the Navy Department, as
it did last Sunday. ”
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DAVIS SEEKS TIME TO PREPARE BROADCASTS
It may be several weeks before Elmer Davis, Director of
the Office of War Information, goes on the air with his govern¬
mental news broadcasts.
"I'd like to have five or six days to get off to myself
to prepare for these broadcasts”, Mr. Davis told this writer. "I'm
sure it will be some little time before I will be able to begin
tnem. "
Asked if the reports were true that undue pressure had
been exerted on the networks to take these official broadcasts,
Mr, Davis replied:
"Not at all. They were of fered to the networks and by
the networks to the stations, just like anything else. Both the
networks and the stations could take them or leave them. ”
As a matter of fact, Mr. Davis didn't seem to know
exactly what networks or the the number of stations that would put
him on. It was said elsewhere that the quarter-hour weekly broad¬
casts had been scheduled for 10:45 P.M. Fridays by NBC, CBS and
Blue and that Mutual would carry them by transcriotion at 4 P.M.
Saturdays. Although Mr. Davis showed no signs of it, to this
writer at least, it was reported that he was pretty badly tired out
and that his doctor had advised him to take a rest.
XX XXXXXXXX
Baylor University, Corpus Christi, Texas, has applied to
the Federal Communications Commission for a construction permit
for a new station on 1010 kilocycles, 50 kilowatts, unlimited time,
employing directional antenna day and night.
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FCC EMPLOYEES INCLUDED IN HOUSE "RADICALS'* PROBE
Dr, Goodwin B, Watson, Chief Broadcast Analyst, and
Frederick L. Schuman, Chief Political Analyst, of the federal Com¬
munications Commission will be among the 39 officials of alleged
subversive personnel on the Government payroll to be investigated
by the special subcommittee just appointed by the House, Repre¬
sentative Kerr, Democrat, of North Carolina, is the Chairman of
the subcommittee. He is a former prosecuting attorney of Winnebago
County, Wisconsin.
The other members are Representatives Gore„ of Tennessee,
and Anderson, of New Mexico, Democrats, and Powers of New Jersey,
and Keefe, of Wisconsin, Republicans. Three of the members of the
investigating subcommittee - Representatives Kerr, Gore and Keefe -
are lawyers. Mr. Kerr was elected to Congress in 1923 to succeed
the late Representative Kitchen. At that time he was serving on
the Superior Court bench in North Carolina.
The House last Wednesday decided that after nearly five
years in the dual role of investigator and Jury the Dies Committee
could no longer sit in judgment of the Americanism of Federal work¬
ers.
It voted to authorize the naming of a special subcommittee
of Its Appropriations Committee to hear charges of radicalism
among Federal personnel brought by the Committee on Un-American
Activities, headed by Representative Dies (D„), of Texas, who staunch¬
ly opposed the move.
In completing an about-face from Its militant attitude
against continuing "radical bureaucrats'' on the federal payroll
whether they have been shown to be radical or not, the House a
couple of hours later refused, by 131 votes, to uphold last Friday's
action in removing from the Treasury Department rolls the name of
William Pickens, Negro specialist in promoting the sale of war bonds.
Representative Colmer ( D. ) , of Mississiopi, taunted the
Republicans on their "about-face'' saying:
"A day or two ago the House said by its vote that this
man Pickens, because of his subversive activities as disclosed by
the Dies committee, should be stricken from his $5,600 job on the
payroll of the Government. The country - or at least a substantial
portion of the country - approved this action. But now it seems
that some politicians with an ear to the ground heard that this man
Pickens was a member of the Negro race.
"Instead of that wholehearted cooperation between the
conservative groups, we find politics as usual.
"Who was it that the other day voted almost in a solid
mass to take Pickens off the pay roll? Of course, it was the
Republican side. But today we see an about-face since it has been
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2/12/43
learned that Pickens is a Negro. Somebody Is playing to the Negro
vote. "
In the words of another Member, privately expressed, "We
voted this man Pickens off the pay roll on the theory that he was
a Red. Then we found out that he was black and proceeded to place
him back on the payroll. Evidently that makes us yellow, "
XXXXXXXX
DENIES FCC ORDER BLOW TO FREEDOM OF SPEECH
Denying In the United States Supreme Court the argument
of John T. Cahill, counsel for the National Broadcasting Company,
that the Federal Communications Commission’s restrictions on chain
broadcasting were an unconstitutional infringement on free speech,
Solicitor General Charles Fahy said further that the regulations
served to encourage competition and prevent undue concentration of
control of the radio Industry.
"The regulations embody the orinciple of the Communica¬
tions Act that radio facilities shall be used as fully and effect¬
ively as possible in the public interest", Mr. Fahy said.
Mr. Cahill told the court that the FCC "holds the power
of absolute life or death over every radio station in the United
States. * * * The licensing of instruments of free speech is sup¬
portable only Insofar as it is necessary to protect clearly defined
interests more Imoortant than freedom of speech Itself. "
Mr. Cahill contended the Commission had exceeded its
authority in limiting contracts by which a radio station granted
options to networks for broadcasting time. He said this was a
regulation "of critical Importance" and constituted a "death blow
to Nation-wide network broadcasting. "
XXXXXXXXX
HOUSE FAVORS WESTERN UNION-POSTAL MERGER
The House on Wednesday passed by a standing vote of 201
to 56 the long-pending bill to permit a merger of the Western Union
and Postal Telegraph companies.
Representative Rankin (D. ), of Mississippi, charging the
Government would be setting up a monopoly by a merger, tried to
kill the bill by moving to strike out Its enacting clause. This
was shouted down.
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S: TRADE NOTES
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The hours of broadcasting for WOR* s FM Station W71NY are
now from 1 to 7 p.M. Mondays through Saturdays. The old time was
3 to 9 p,M. the same days.
Manufacturers of new phonograph records may continue
beyond May 1, 1943, to place and sell records in envelopes, albums
or containers that do not bear a statement showing the establish S/1111™
price for the records, provided the packages are from stock printed
prior to November 13, 1942, the Office of price Administration said.
There is a report that James D. Shouse, Vice-President in
charge of the Crosley Broadcasting Corporation has been offered the
poet of head of the Radio Division of the Office of War Information
recently held by William D. Lewis, recently boosted upstairs as
an Assistant OWI Director.
In the Independent Offices appropriation bill now before
the House $5,590,314 is asked for special war activities of the
Federal Communications Commission.
The Board of Directors of the Columbia Broadcasting
System, Inc., Wednesday declared a cash dividend of 30<z! per share
on the present Class A and Class B stock of $2.50 par value. The
dividend is payable on March 5, 1943, to stockholders of record
at the close of business on February 19, 1943.
Station KWSC, State College of Washington, Pullman,
Washington, has applied to the Federal Communications Commission
for a construction permit to change frequency from 1250 kilocycles
to 1030 kilocycles, change power from 5 kilowatts to 1 kilowatt
night, 5 kilowatts day, hours from Share with KTW to Unlimited and
make changes in antenna and ground systems. Requests facilities of
KOB.
Purity Products, Inc. , 1060 Broad St. , Newark, N. J. ;
The Journal of Living Publishing Corporation, 1819 Broadway, New
York, and Victor H. Lindlahr have been ordered by the Federal Trade
Commission to cease and desist from misrepresentation in advertis¬
ing and selling a medicinal preparation known as "VBev".
VBev is distributed by Purity Products, Inc., and advertis¬
ing concerning it is disseminated by Lindlahr In the publication
"Journal of Living", which he edits and which is published by the
respondent publishing corporation. The preparation also is adver¬
tised in newspapers and other periodicals and over the radio.
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McCLINTOCK, MBS HEAD, OUTLINES 1943 EXPANSION PLAN
A six-point program for mutual network operations in
1943, which will "make Mutual second to none in serving the adver¬
tiser and the listener1’ was outlined by Miller McClintock, Mutual
Broadcasting System President last Wednesday at a dinner tendered
to the members of the press covering the radio industry.
The six points follow:
1. The largest budget in the network’s eight-year
history.
2. Regular program clinics attended by key originating
stations.
3. Increased network service to member and affiliated
stations in programming and promotion.
4. An enlarged research department.
5. New policies to make Mutual more than ever "the
friendly network'11.
6. Equal sales emphasis on the major markets and the
"small towns of America",
"It is going to be our policy to make Mutual a friendly
network, easy to do business with", said Mr, McClintock, "We will
see to it that our organization follows this principle harmonously
and progressively. "
The largest budget in the network’ s eight year history
has gone into effect, Mr, McClintock stated, which emphasizes that
the network stockholders are 100 percent behind these policies,
"The network expansion will touch all departments of the
organization", he continued, "but will come in an evolutionary
rather than a revolutionary way. ’’
Heading the list will be notable and important improve¬
ments in network program structure, with the network more actively
assisting its stations in preparing programs of the highest
calibre, he said.
"The basic idea of station origination will continue",
Mr. McClintock said, "but with more help in ideas and participation
from network program officials. "
Mr. McClintock announced that a meeting of key station
program directors will be held sometime this month in New York to
further examine network programming and setup new program ideas.
The cooperative structure of Mutual - that of a station-
operated network will continue permanently - but with a tightening
of coordination from top to bottom.
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"Radio, like the press, has accepted its obligations and
opportunity to play an important role in the war effort and during
the post-war era", Niles Trammell, NBC President, declared in a
recent address to station representatives during a meeting of the
second War Clinic in Chicago. The Chicago conference, mid-stop in
the Clinic9 s tour of the country, was attended by representatives
of 42 NBC affiliates from 16 States.
"The totalitarian nations", Mr. Trammell added, "long
ago recognized the power of radio to mold public opinion. In the
United States, radio, like the press, does not seek to influence
the thinking of the people but to Inform the people. In this res¬
pect, the technique of the press and radio in this country, is at
variance with that in the axis countries. We are satisfied that
the people will think straight if we can give them the news,
straight and unbiased.
"The press and radio are not competitors", Mr. Trammell
declared. "Radio can never hope, nor does it want to surpass the
press in the dissemination of the news. They complement each other
in giving the nation the best news service in the world. They
should work together as two great forces, ready if necessary, to
defend the right of free speech. "
Stanley Hubbard, Manager, KSTP , St. Paul, presided at
the Chicago sessions.
The War Clinic moved to New Orleans for sessions on
February 8 and 9, after which the group of executives traveled to
Houston, Texas, for session on February 10 and 11.
The Clinic will hold its final meetings in Los Angeles,
February 15 and 16.
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CROSLEY CORPORATION PAY TRIBUTE TO WOMEN WORKERS
"Let’s Never Call Them the Weaker Sex Again!" says a
page ad recently carried by the Crosley Corporation in the
Washington Post and other newspapers.
"With us at Crosley, the employment of women is not new.
In the making of Crosley Radios and in other peacetime products, we
have had reason to know how competent and skillful women’s hands
and brains can be.
"But more than ever, since the total conversion to war
in our eight plants has been achieved, we have reason to appreciate
the part that women are playing.
"To them goes a great share of the credit for the speed
and adaptability which is enabling Crosley to turn out a volume of
production four times greater than our highest peacetime peak.
"Thanks to women, in no small measure, even that
record of production will be raised to six times by Crosley before
the middle of this year. "
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NDEX TO ISSUE 0^ FEBRUARY 16, 1943.
NAB And. tfCC Duck As Congress Goes After Radio . 1
New Radio Rule Successful At White House Dinner . 2
New Petrillo Plan Aooalling, Says Editorial . 3
Dies ’’Jury" To Begin Work 'Wiis Week . 4
Mrs. Roosevelt Opens OWI Radio Program For Negroes
Thinks Congress Has Done Swell Job On Merger Bill.
Radio And Press Credited With Censorshin Success. .
Few Winchell Complaints; vly Says Policy Up ^o Blue . 6
Blue Explains Only Wanted Commentators To Be ^air . .7
FCC Chairman Boosts Small Station Advertising . 8
Supreme Court Verdict Gives Petrillo New Confidence . 10
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NAB AND FCC DUCK AS CONGRESS GOES AFTER RADIO
With Congress aroused over the commentators and censor¬
ship, while at the same time whetting its axe for James L. Fly and
the Federal Communications Commission, and threatening to revamp
the whole radio structure, two groups which you might naturally
think, would be in the thick of the fight are conspicuous by their
silence. The first is the FCC and the second is the National
Association of Broadcasters.
Just who the real champions of radio will be will be seen
at the Naval Affairs Committee hearing where Secretary Knox will
probably be put on the grill this week regarding the status of
Walter Winchell. Also at subsequent sessions of Congress where
the subject of radio is sure to be discussed, and finally when the
Committee, headed by Repre senta tive Cox of Georgia, gets the grid¬
iron thoroughly heated up for the FCC. In the meantime, neither the
FCC nor the NAB have let out a single peep.
Ordinarily if such a charge had been made against a com¬
mentator as calling certain people "damn fools", as was made against
Walter Winchell, Mr. Fly and the FCC would have been ranting all
over the place in righteous indignation Just as they did in the Mae
West case where about all they had on rife e was the inflection she
used in saying something that was construed to be suggestive. How¬
ever, Winchell let his foot slip and actually used profanity in
direct violation of the Communications Act but has Mr. Fly been
heard from? The reason for this is (a) he knows the Winchell situa¬
tion is loaded politically and that the commentator unquestionably
has the backing of the Administration, and the present Chairman of
the FCC has never been known to go out of his way to offend the
Administration (b) he knows that anything he might say would be
pounced upon by Representative Cox and used against him when the
FCC comes up for its Congressional frizzling next month. Mr. Fly
knows that then he may have the fight of his life and therefore is
not taking any chances on sticking his neck out now.
Westbrook Pegler, a few days ago, asked the newspapers to
"fight harder for the freedom which the radio has so meekly surrend¬
ered". The National Association of Broadcasters, never known for
its aggressive action or strong leadership, in addition to walking
along silently carrying the white flag on censorship, has also
evidently turned the other cheek to its old enemy, Mr. Fly.
Representative Cox on the Hill would welcome with open
arms any assistance on Mr. Fly which the NAB could give him. It is
predicted that Mr. Cox will make it plenty warm for the FCC Chairman
without NAB' s help but let it be predicted here if the broadcasters’
association doesn(t assist the fiery Georgia Congressman at this
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time they, in turn, may find themselves Just as thoroughly investi¬
gated and may do so anyway before the Congressional radio war is
over.
In the meantime, silence is the order of the day with
both the FCC and the NAB and will probably continue to be until the
present Congressional outburst on radio blows over.
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NEW RADIO RULE SUCCESSFUL AT WHI^E HOUSE DINNER
The new rule that there be no advance notice of the place
from which the President will broadcast was successfully tried out
in connection with Mr, Roosevelt’s fighting speech made at the
White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner at the new Statler
Hotel in Washington last Friday night. That the President would
speak, of course, was announced in advance but it wasn’t until
people heard it over the air or read it in the paper the next morn¬
ing that they knew where it was broadcast from.
Although an added starter, the President’s speech over¬
shadowed everything else. The dinner was arranged as a benefit for
the National Infantile Paralysis Association and everybody, includ¬
ing the President, paid for his own meal, which was of the Army
type, starting off with bean soup. There was no meat, butter, or
coffee. Attendance was confined strictly to members and only such
guests as the White House Association itself invited. However, an
invitation was later extended to the American Society of Newspaper
Editors, which happened to be meeting at that time, finally result¬
ing in about 700 persons attending*
The networks alternate in furnishing the talent for the
affairs and this year the program was put on by Columbia. It was
done under difficulties because of faulty installation of the new
hotel’s loud speaker system.
Beatrice Kay, of CBS' "day Nineties" got the biggest
laugh of the evening in telling of three American soldiers in Africa
on leave and not finding anything to do and in a strange town bought
a bottle of whisky and went up to a hotel room. One of them happen¬
ing to look out of the window onto the street, shouted to the others,
"Stop drinking that stuff. It's terrible. I've only had two drinks
of it but down there I see Roosevelt coming along in a Jeep. "
Among those present at the White House Dinner from the
radio industry were:
Judge A. L. Ashby, Vice President and General Counsel,
NBC; Carl L. Burkland, Manager of WJSV, Washington; Raymond Clapper,
commentator; Martin Codel, publisher of Broadcasting Magazine;
Gardner Cowles, Jr., Assistant Director, OWI ; George Crandall,
Director of Publicity, CBS, New York; Elmer Da.vis, Director of OWI,
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J. E. Doyle, WABC, New York; Earl Gammons, Vice-President, CBS;
Earl Godwin, commentator; Richard Harkness, commentator; William
Hillman, commentator; Lynne M. Lamm, NAB; Lewis W, B. , Assistant
Director, OWI ; Ernest K. Lindley, commentator; Frank McIntosh,
Radio Division, WPB, and Clayland Morgan, NBC, New York,
Also, Frank E, Mullen, Vice President and General Manager,
NBC; Barnet Nover, commentator; Drew Pearson, commentator; Nelson
Rockefeller, Coordinator of Inters American Affairs; Commander M. R.
Runyan, formerly of CBS; J. Harold Ryan, Assistant Director of
Censorship in Charge of Radio; Frank Stanton, Vice-President CBS;
Oswald F. Schuette, RCA,, and Fred Shawn, NBC.
Also, Carleton D. Smith, Manager WRC, Washington; Gen. A. D.
Surles, in charge publicity, War Department; Sol Taishoff, Editor,
Broadcasting Magazine; Davidson Taylor, Assistant Director of Broad¬
casting, CBS; Major Albert L, Warner, formerly CBS; Frank White,
Vice-President CBS; Paul White, formerly NBC, and Capt. Kenneth
Yourd, formerly CBS.
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NEW PETRILLO PLAN APPALLING, SAYS EDITORIAL
An editorial in the Washington Post captioned "Racketeer¬
ing Refined" reads:
"The fertile brain of James C. Petrillo, President of the
American Federation of Musicians, has conceived an ingenious olan
for settlement of the controversy over musical recordings. He sug¬
gests that record manufacturers and Juke-box operators should pay a
fee to the musicians’ union on each disc sold and each phonograph
in operation. The receipts would go into a special fund to be used
to reduce unemployment among musicians, foster musical appreciation
and furnish ’free live music' to the public.
"Stripped ofhigh- sounding phrases, this plan is a proposal
closely akin to the undercover blackmail that union racketeers have
been known to levy on hapless employers using devices that increase
the efficiency of labor. The chief difference is that Mr. Petrillo* s
proposal is in the open and is launched as a philanthropic enter¬
prise worthy of public support. However, if Mr. Petrillo’ s union
could extract fees from manufacturers who produce goods that compete
with musicians’ services, would it not be equally reasonable for the
building trades unions to demand similar tribute from producers of
fabricated housing materials? Indeed, what is to hinder any union
from exacting payments from any industry that offers a threat to the
stability of its members' jobs?
"The implications of the Petrillo plan viewed solely from
tnis angle are appalling. But tnere are still other objections to
consider. Why, for instance, should employers be forced to contrib¬
ute to a union unemployment fund when they already contribute to a
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Nation-wide system of compulsory unemployment Insurance set up for
the benefit of millions of union and nonunion workers? Multiple
levies imposed by unions upon employers to create special unemploy¬
ment funds would boost production costs and result in higher prices
and living costs. In fact, there is no knowing how much the public
would ultimately have to pay for protecting 'live music' against the
assaults of the mechanical age if Mr. Petrillo's plan were approved
and became a precedent (as it unquestionably would) for other
unions to follow. "
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DIES "JURY" TO BEGIN WORK THIS WEEK
The Appropriations subcommittee named as a "jury" for the
Dies Committee to examine charges of subversion filed against eight
Federal workers is expected to begin functioning this week. Among
those who will be "tried" end whose records will be gone into will
be Goodwin B. Watson, Chief Broadcast Analyst of the FCC, who
receives §6, 500, and Frederick L. Schuman, Chief Political Analyst
of the FCC, who receives $5,500. It was reported that the sub¬
committee was seeking the services of William Bradley Umostead, for¬
mer member of the House from North Carolina as its attorney to con¬
duct the hearings.
The subcommittee may also hear accusations of "radicalism"
which may be brought against Government workers by members of
Congress and others. The charges, it was emphasized, must be sub¬
mitted in documentary form.
Subcommittee members denied, however, that there was any
intention that the subcommittee would act as a kind of Congre ssional
Board of Review of Civil Service appointments. The subcommittee's
main purpose, it was said, will be to consider charges made by the
committee headed by Representative Dies and to recommend to the
House that it stop payment of salaries to those workers against
whom it finds the charges to be supported.
While txie subcommittee will give accused employees a chance
to be heard in their own defense, which the Dies Committee in large
measure failed to do, its hearings probably will be held behind
closed doors. It was explained that, in a sense, the subcommittee
will be sitting as an employer of workers who will appear before it,
and, it was contended, meetings of this nature should be in private.
First charges to be considered by the committee will be
those against William Pickens, Negro securities promotion specialist
employed in the treasury Department. Dies accused Pickens of having
been a member of a "subversive" organization and the House voted to
stop his pay, but changed its mind a few days later after political
implications of this action filtered through Republican minds.
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Next the subcommittee will investigate charges against
seven employees whose salaries are paid from appropriations in the
Independent Offices Appropriation Bill. The measure is scheduled
for House consideration this week, and the bill will certainly be
passed before the subcommittee has an opportunity to report.
It was observed, however, that the subcommittee was auth¬
orized to recommend that salaries be stopped by pronosing amendment
to any appropriation bill, so "if the Independent Offices bill get
by us, those fellows have no assurance that they won’t be touched. "
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MRS. ROOSEVELT OPENS OWI RADIO PROGRAM FOR NEGROES
Mrs. Roosevelt and six colored and white leaders in edu¬
cation last Saturday night launched a new radio program, "Tty
Peonle”, to tell of the nart nlayed in the war effort by the
Nation’s colored neople. The first of the series, which is spons¬
ored by the Office of War Information, was nresented over Station
WOL, in Washington.
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THINKS CONGRESS HAS DONE SWELL JOB ON MERGER BILL
In answer to a question as to whether the Federal Communi¬
cations Commission was satisfied with the terms of the wire merger
bill as passed by the House and Senate, James L. Fly, Chairman of
the FCC, said:
"Well, yes, in general. I think that Congress has done
a swell job on it. I think in terms of the ultimate results it
will be very fine, and I am gratified that they have acted so ex¬
peditiously; that at last we see a way out of a very difficult
situation, and I am Hopeful that as the months go along we will be
able to move toward a fixed and thorough-going and efficient well-
integrated telegraph system. "
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RADIO AND PRESS CREDITED WITH CENSORSHIP SUCCESS
Stating that "voluntary censorshin has been brought to a
degree of success never before approached in this country", Byron
Price, Director of Censorship, nraised the cooperation given him
by the radio and the press.
"The credit for this success", Mr. Price declared on the
American ^orum of the Air, broadcast over the Mutual network last
Sunday night, "and for the attendant implications of future free¬
dom for press and radio, belongs to the publishers and broadcast¬
ers and to the loyal members of their staffs. It has been neces¬
sary for the Government merely to ooint the way. "
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FEW WINCHELL COMPLAINTS; FLY SAYS POLICY UP TO BLUE
Asked if there had been many complaints regarding the
Winchell Congressional "damn fool" broadcast, James L. Fly, Chair¬
man of the Federal Communications Commission, said there had been
about a dozen a week or so ago.
"I haven’t heard of any since", Mr. Fly added. "I don't
think there was a great volume. "
"Does the reported policy of the Blue Network that no com¬
mentator can criticize anyone in the Government - does that Jibe
entirely with all the FCC regulations for freedom of speech?" the
Chairman was asked.
"I think primarily the problem of freedom of speech on
the Blue Network is, I might say, wholly and exclusively one for
the Blue Network management. We don’t have any authority to censor,
of course. We haven't any authority to approve or disapprove any
statements made on the air, and I think, for that matter, it is just
as well that we don't. Of course, in terms of general policy, I
thinK freedom of speech underlies the whole theory of radio func¬
tion. We haven’t raised any kicks here about some rather severe
tnings that nave been said about the Commission. I don't intend
to raise any kicks about them.
"You mean said over the air?" someone interjected.
"Yes, or for that matter said anywhere", Mr. Fly replied.
"I think it's awfully important that we ourselves not be critical
of criticism or try to draw any fine lines as to whether we think
it is fair or unfair criticism. Woodrow Wilson had something to say
about that general problem - It is more important that we have un¬
fettered right of criticism than that we be assured of the fairness
of all criticism. That doesn't mean that I approve of what Winchell
or any of these people have said. In fact I haven't been called
upon to aoprove or disapprove, and I am not complaining about anyone
that raised a kick about it - that is part of free soeech. I only
mean to say that we ourselves are not inclined to step into contro¬
versy of that kind. "
It was said at the Capitol this ("Tuesday) morning that the
House Naval Affairs hearing to question Secretary Knox further with
regard to the status of Walter Winchell as a naval officer had been
postponed but probably would be held soon.
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Low R. Maxon, head of the Maxon advertising firm of
Detroit, will replace Robert W. Horton as Chief of the Information
Division of the Office of Price Administration.
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BLUE EXPLAINS ONLY WANTED COMMENTATORS TO BE FAIR
Instead of being restricted further last Sunday night,
Walter Winchell and Drew Pearson were given the green light with
apoarently the only admonition that they be fair in their comments.
It was said that the whole thing was a misunderstanding arising
over a memo from Mark Woods, President of the Blue Network sup¬
plementing certain rules previously laid down with regard to criti¬
cism of public officials following a broadcast by Walter Winchell
in which he charged those who voted to return pre-Pearl Harbor
isolationists to Congress as being "damn fools". .Also, without
mentioning his name, Mr. Woods questioned some things said by Mr.
Pearson.
That both Winchell and Pearson had again been given a
free hand by Mr. Woods, wno it was said had no intention of acting
as censor and wnose only desire was fair play, was evident from
the remarks of the two commentators on the air Sunday night.
Mr. Pearson said:
"Tomorrow the House Naval Affairs Committee meets to hear
the kicks of certain Congressmen who don't like what Walter Winchell
has been saying about them. But at that meeting Winchell will have
the support of his superiors in the Navy.
"Also, I am harpy to report that Winchell will continue
to have the same right of fair criticism of the Blue Network that
he has had for years. And which I have tonight.
"One reason Winchell has the supoort of high Washington
officials is this: Long before we entered the war, Winchell was
the first man to ooint his finger at the German- American Bund and
keep on pointing. Others claimed the Bund was merely a sporting
club. But Winchell kept on pointing at the Bund and at the Jap
agent, Raich Townsend, and others. And today they are all behind
the bars or sent back to Germany. "
Mr. Winchell referred to Patrick Henry as a champion of
free speech. He wound up by saying: "No dictator can come into
power in a country where there is free speech. My right to sneak
freely before this microphone is important to me but it is much more
important to the people. "
Mr. Winchell said that the misunderstanding with the Blue
Network had been ended and that it had been agreed that criticism
of a public official was a constitutional right.
The memorandum which Mr. Woods explained was an interpre¬
tation of the existing Blue Network rules, follows:
"No remarks shall be made which are derogatory of any
member of either House of Congress, member of the President's
Cabinet or any other person holding any public office.
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"No derogatory or Insulting remarks about either House
of Congress or any groups of members in either House or any Federal
agency or employee thereof.
"No remarks which might impute guilt to individuals or
organizations not already outlawed by the Government. 11
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FCC CHAIRMAN BOOSTS SMALL STATION ADVERTISING
At his press conference yesterday (Monday) afternoon,
Chairman James L. Fly of the Federal Communications Commission, was
asked if it were not possible to get sufficient advertisers to use
the small stations if there were plans for subsidies. In replying,
Mr. Fly said:
"The first suggestion that came here was to subsidize - the
RFC loans. I definitely discouraged that because that would bring
the Government in with material interest in the stations and pos¬
sibly lay the ground for the charge that the Government was acquir¬
ing some influence over the stations thereby; and (2) a shot in the
arm to the station that would leave the station saddled with a fixed
obligation to burden it in the future. Then the next suggestion
was the Government Itself paying for time, and that had innumerable
practical difficulties plus some of the difficulties of the orin-
ciples that were involved in the rejection of the idea of the RFC
loan. However, I have been all through that and it is my inclina¬
tion to pass the results along entirely different lines and wind up
the matter through purely private transactions, and I think it is
particularly likely with restrictions that are actual or potential
in the field of news print and outdoor advertising, and all that
sort of thing.
"The advertisers may come to appreciate the value of advertis¬
ing on the small and remote stations. After all, you have Intensity
of listening there in terms of tne number of people who listen in
proportion to the total number, also a more intensive quality of
listening and less advertising to compete with. The upshot of the
wnole thing is that it's pay dirt for the advertiser as no other
comparable audience would be. Many of these communities have no
other substantial means for mass communication. "
"Is there anything to indicate that the recent disclos¬
ures of the WALB hearing mi&ht bring action against a certain
gentleman on the Hill whose activities have been discussed?" the
FCC Chairman was asked,
"I haven't had anything to say about that to anybody,
and I would not want to say anything about It", was the reoly.
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Q. Is there anything on the 1942 financial situation yet?
A. Yes, We are a little closer to the ultimate results there,
though there was a sizable number of stations that failed to
get in the returns on this little series of questions. Before
we really can get full grasp of the problem, we will have to
get the regular annual reports and give them a thorough going
over. The results, I think, are, so far, roughly about what
we expected. 1942, due to the various stimulae in most of the
communities, and due further to the fact that the restrictions
had not had their full impact during the major portion of the
year, was on the whole a pretty good year. We are fearful
that ’43 and *44 are likely to be much worse, for very obvious
reasons. As you probably know, a handful of the stations have
folded up; six or eight of them have surrendered their licensees,
and there have been other po ssibilities of surrendering licenses,
but the number that have lost money recently and have been push¬
ed into the red due to the present conditions is to date not a
startling number. I think it is, however, obviously a very
significant problem and something that we must do whatever we
can do to alleviate.
Q,. You said that six or eight of these small stations have folded
up - how long a period would that include?
A. Within a couple of months.
Q,. Isn’t that an unusually large number?
A. Yes, that is a little larger than normal.
Q. Does the Commission have any policy on this matter? Is there
any penalty ever leveled against these stations which might
fold up under somewhat questionable circumstances?
A. No, there is no penalty,
Q. Can they get a license after the war?
A. I am not sure about that. The Commission hasn't arrived at any
conclusion on the suspension of licenses, but I would assume
where there is a voluntary surrender of a license there would
be no form of penalty. By that I don't mean to say that the
Commission is indicating any tnought of encouragement of sus¬
pensions or the surrender of licenses. I don't think any of us
would want that to happen. It Just happens that these stations
that are concerned here are in many cases those that are most
vital to the public.
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2/16/43
SUPREME COURT VERDICT GIVES PETRILLO NEW CONFIDENCE
The Supreme Court upholding James C. Petrillo and the
American Federation of Musicians in their ban on recording of
music for radio and juke boxes has given the music leader a new
confidence. This decision prevents the AM from being enjoined
under the anti-trust laws.
Furthermore, it Is another blow to the man Mr, Petrillo
described as "his old enemy1', Thurman Arnold, "trust busting"
Assistant Attorney General, who was the prime mover in Petrillo1 s
prosecution. Mr. Arnold had declared that not only did the ban
maKe Mr, Petrillo a dictator over the musicians in preventing them
from making recordings but it imperilled the very existence of
small broadcasting stations which depended upon records.
It was another victory for Mr. Petrillo when Thurman
Arnold was virtually forced out of the Justice Deoartment and
"kicked upstairs" into the U. S. District Court of Appeals, the
nomination for which Is now pending In the Senate.
The Petrillo case came up for discussion at the Federal
Communications Commission Monday when Chairman James L. Fly when
asked if he had any comment to make on the music head's prooosal
for royalties in settling the fight over record making said;
"I don't think I am prepared, and I am not sure that I
am comoetent to pass upon the merits of the Petrillo proposal. I
haven't studied it nor do I understand all its implications. On
the other hand, I think it is a practical matter and that industry
ought to be careful, In any potentiality , to be practical in settl¬
ing the whole difficulty, and I should be very reluctant to say
that it should not be given serious consideration. It is conceiv¬
able that something could be worked out of it, or In any event that
a good faith attempt to settle the matter around the table will
lead to some form of arriving at a satisfactory settlement. I
don't know just what the conditions of unemployment in the musical
industry is, I am wondering, however, if it isn't a lesser problem
now than it has been in the past. And I am also wondering If the
problem may not be greater in post-war days than It is now, It
seems to me that it would be, as a matter of general wisdom of the
thing rather than as a point over which, of course, I have any
official concern. It would be Interesting to know how the unemploy¬
ment is now and what plans might be made for future unemployment.
In a great many industries, of course, the problem of wages, earn¬
ings, and unemployment is much easier than it has been In the past
and perhaps may be in the future. "
In a per curiam opinion, a citing of legal authorities,
the Supreme Court Monday sustained the action of the Federal
District Court in Chicago, Oct. 12, in dismissing a petition by
the Government for an injunction under the Sherman anti-trust laws.
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Judge Jonn P. Barnes held In the Chicago decision that
the Issue was based on a labor dispute and therefore could not be
considered to come under the anti-trust laws. He dismissed the
complaint on the grounds that the Norris-La Guardia Act prohibited
the issuance of an Injunction where a labor dispute was involved.
The Supreme Court, without discussion or argument, cited
several cases in which tnis act had applied.
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ment proposals are being held in New York, attended by the officials
of ten recording and transcription companies. Radio thus far has
not been mentioned, Mr. Petriilo saying: ”We have no fight with
radio. Any trouble there has been stirred up by the National
Association of Broadcasters. ”
Mr. Petriilo’ s proposal for settlement of the controversy
over recordings was described as a new type of union demand under
which the employee would not receive a wage increase, but the
employer would pay a. fixed amount directly to the union Itself.
Mr. Petriilo said that the money received from the record
manufacturers and ”Juke-boxn operators, In the form of a fee on
each disk sold and on each phonograph in operation, would go into
a special fund administered by the union’s national headquarters
and would be spent as follows:
’’For the purpose of reducing unemployment which has
been created in the main by the use of mechanical devices, and
for fostering and maintaining musical talent and culture and
musical appreciation, and for furnishing free, live music to the
public by means of symphony orchestras, bands and other musical
combinations. ”
While the plan would Improve the economic position of
the musicians as a group, Mr. Petriilo said that he had been advis¬
ed by his lawyers that it did not conflict with the wage stabiliza¬
tion act as administered by the War Labor Board.
”It is no wage increase”, Mr, Petriilo said. ”We discuss¬
ed it with our attorneys, and they say we’re all right. There’s
no precedent for it. This is something absolutely new. w
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Earle McGill, Director of Columbia’s network’s ttReport to
the Nation” and other CBS programs, was elected President of the
Radio Directors’ Guild at a meeting in New York City last week.
Robert Lewis Shayon, another CBS director, was elected Treasurer.
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2400 CALIFORNIA STREET WASHINGTON, D. C.
INDEX TO ISSUE OF FEBRUARY 19, 1943
FCC Almost Eliminated In First Major New Deal Attack . 1
Says FCC Holds Record For Draft Dodgers . . . . . 3
Fly Accused Of Forcing Admiral Hooper Out Of Navy . 4
New Way Prooosed To Broadcast Congressional Doings . 5
Says Petrillo Rule Must Satisfy Administration . 0.6
Each Side Claims Victory In Wlnchell Case . ?
FCC O.K.’s Foreign Correspondents’ Contracts Waiver . . . 9
Conferees Reach Accord In Wire Merger . 9
Trade Note s . . . . 10
Mutual Program Directors Will Attend 1943 Clinic.. . 11
Maritime "M” Awarded To Radiomarine Coroora. tion, . . .11
No
1505
FCC ALMOST ELIMINATED IN FIRST MAJOR NEW DEAL ATTACK
A sample of what may be in store for the Federal Communi¬
cations Commission, soon to be investigated by two governmental
agencies, was shown Wednesday when only the personal intervention
of Speaker Sam Rayburn prevented the House from leaving the Commis¬
sion high and dry by cutting off next year’s appropriations. Even
the intervention of Speaker Rayburn - his first in the new
Congress - would probably not have saved the Commission had he not
been backed by Representative E. E. Cox, of Georgia, the FCC’s most
bitter enemy and Chairman of the committee whicn will soon investi¬
gate the Commission.
The split over the FCC was the first major break the House
has had with New Deal policies and the FCC had the misfortune to be
one of the first governmental bureaus to face the storm of disapprov¬
al. A proposed to abolish the Commission had been made by Repre¬
sentative Case ( R. ) , of South Dakora, by cutting off its funds after
next June 30th.
Until Messrs. Rayburn and Cox stepped into the picture,
it looked as if the amendment would be carried overwhelmingly but
finally when a vote was taken, it was defeated by a standing vote
of 162 to 87.
In the plea to his colleagues, Speaker Rayburn said:
"I think I have a right to speak on this amendment
because I happened to be the chairman of the committee that report¬
ed tne bill to set up the Communications Commission and was the
author of the bill. Before that time there was chaos in communica¬
tions throughout the length and breadth of the land. The telegraph
and telepnone business had hardly been touched by the agencies that
were supposed to handle them, tne Interstate Commission. The old
Radio Commission was devoting a little time to broadcasting and to
broadcasting only. It was thought at that time that all communi¬
cations snould come under the commission of the Government. This
was done back in 1934.
“Now, if the amendment offered by the gentleman from
South Dakota should be brusned aside as sheer demagogy, that would
be one thing. If the begging of the question by the gentleman
from New York that if the investigating committee reported between
now and first of July were convincing, that would be another thing.
I do not appeal to your prejudices or to your passions, and I do
not accuse people of demagogy, but I do want to counsel with your
reason, with your reason I repeat, with all the earnestness I can
command. A great war is on, the world is aflame and the air is
full of propaganda from every conceivable portion of the earth.
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Tnere is only one agency in the United States of America, let me
say to you, that has any control whatsoever over the air of the
United States. Do you by your vote at tnis time want to strike
down that only agency?”
Explaining nis stand, Representative Case said:
"The purpose in offering tnis amendment is to permit an
intelligent appropriation to be made. How can we appropriate intel¬
ligently in this bill when there is pending for a detailed investi¬
gation of the activities of the ^deral Communications Commission?
Some of us believe we cannot so appropriate at this time. Conse¬
quently, we believe this appropriation should be deferred.
,,rT,his does not mean we expect the Federal Communications
Commission to be abolished or its activities to be ended. I, for
one, would be opposed to that, and so would the other Members of the
House. We are acquainted with the work the federal Communications
Commission is doing. Most of it should be continued; possibly,
some of it should not.* * *
"There are reasons for raising some question about this
appropriation. We asked the Commission for its figures on the
draft deferments it had asked for its employees and found that the
Commission had asked for 442 deferments, receiving 391. It is true
that the federal T’rade Commission has to have some highly trained
technical men. It is probably true that those men in the service
of the Federal Communications Commission can do just as effective
work as they could if they were in uniform. However, until the
select committee is satisfied that tnese deferments, for example,
are justified, we ought not to make appropriations to carry on
activities which we may not approve.
"Not only that, but there was evidence before the committee
that the Commission was doing some work the Army and Navy have the
personnel to do. We asked direct questions on that point about
some of the inspections and some of the examinations the Federal
Communications Commission was making.
"It was testified they were doing tnis at the request of
tne War and Navy Departments but upon pursuing the question, it was
apparent that the Army and the Navy had the personnel to do these
same things. If there is a shortage of manpower, why should we be
deferring men to put them in the Federal Communications Commission
in jobs that the Army and the Navy have personnel to do? Not only
that, but there was some questioning of the promotions made in this
agency during 1942. They totaled 1,800, at a total cost of $145,000.
Doubtless some of them were necessary to hold personnel but they
should be examined in detail. They should be gone into more fully,
and the House has already orovided for that. ^hen, why should be
make this appropriation, based upon activities, some of which we
may want to abandon after the committee has made its reoort?
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’’There is another reason. Three or four of the men who
are on the list about wnich there has been a great deal of debate
are some of the employees of the Federal Communications Commission.
If we were to get into a debate upon the entire appropriation, I
have been told those names would come up, and until they have been
investigated either by the select committee or the special commit¬
tee of the Committee on Appropriations which have been authorized
to hear these people, we could not appropriate intelligently.”
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SAYS FCC HOLDS RECORD FOR DRAFT DODGERS
In the debate over appropriations for the federal Communi¬
cations Commission in the House, Congressman E. E. Cox ( D) , of
Georgia, its deadly foe, said:
”It is common gossip all over town that there is a higher
percentage of draft dodgers as a result of the requests of the
departments in the Communications Commission than in any other
department of the Government. If the gentleman will indulge me
further, I am very much surprised to note the success of Mr. Fly
in obtaining this large appropriation carried in this item. Ap¬
parently he is the witness that appeared in behalf of the Commis¬
sion, on whose testimony the committee bases its finding. The
committee says that the Commission is divided, and that the divi¬
sion differing with Mr. Fly says that the essential work of the
Commission can be carried on and carried on effectively with a
large reduction in appropriations. To be exact, it is contended by
tnose in the know that with $2,000,000 the work of the Commission
can be carried on. Mr. Fly, who heads the Commission, has no know¬
ledge of communications, other than experience that he obtained as
a switchboard operator before he was placed in the chairmanship.
At the present time we find the Army and the Navy subordinated to
him, and if the committee had found it possible to have consulted
the Army and the Navy, disclosures would have been made to it that
Mr. Fly is a terrible handicap to them in his effort to dominate
completely in foreign communications of the Army and the Navy.
’’Others in the know have said to me that the larger part
of the appropriations that are made for this Commission are wasted;
that you may as well shovel the money out of the window as to ex¬
pend it In the manner in which the Commission does. In view of the
investigation that is going on, the item ought to be stricken from
the bill altogether, and later the Congress will be able to make an
appropriation that Is proper, ”
Previous to this, Representative Richard B. Wigglesworth
( R) , of Massachusetts, who also loves the vcc not, said:
”The record also Indicates a request by this agency for
deferments from the draft to the number of 442. Of this number,
there have been granted 391, in respect to which Chairman y
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expresses the hope that the deferments may be for the duration.
All of these deferments may, in fact, be Justified. It may be
stated, however, that neither the description of the positions held,
nor the salaries paid, nor the fact that many of them Joined the
force after Pearl Harbor, lends force to this conclusion in the
first instance.
"This agency (FCC) shows a tremendous number of promo¬
tions in the past year or so, 1,806, to be exact, at an increase
of $145,100. Details were furnished the committee with reference
to the Legal Division and the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service
I may say in passing, however, that the number of promotions was not
only enormous, but that in many instances the same individual has
been given more than one promotion in the same year. Among other
examples is one individual receiving $3,400 Increase, or 105 per¬
cent, within a period of 8 months, another receiving $1,400, or a
75 percent increase, in 6 months, and another receiving $2,200, a
110-percent increase in 16 months. There are many other examples
that I could cite.”
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FLY ACCUSED OF FORCING ADMIRAL HOOPER OUT OF NAVY
During the Anti-New Deal demonstration against the Federal
Communications Commission, Representative E. E. Cox (D.), of Georgia
again bitterly denouncing Chairman James L. Fly, charged him with
being responsible for the retirement of Admir S. C. Hooper, the
Navy's communications expert. Said Mr. Cox:
"I have no brother nor son - no kinsman - who holds a Job
with the Federal Communications Commission whose continuance in
service is dependent upon my support. On the other hand, I have
been maligned, blackmailed, and criminally misrepresented by this
agency of the Government (FCC). * * *
"I am wondering if the gentleman from Virginia (Mr,
Woodrum) , after the colloquy we had an the floor, communicated over
the telephone with Mr. Fly with respect to this matter and if he
knows that Mr. Fly appealed to the Secretary of War and the Secre¬
tary of the Navy for the statements which I think he holds. And I
am wondering too' if the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Woodrum) hap¬
pens to know that this Uriah Heep of the Commission brought politi¬
cal pressure to bear upon the Secretary of the Navy and forced into
retirement the man who knew more about communications than any other
man connected with the Navy, Admiral Hooper? * * *
"I could say more; I could say much more if the propriet¬
ies of the moment made it permissible; but I wrill say this to you:
That I am not the only Member of this House who has been criminally
maligned and falsely represented by this Commission; there are
others I could name, and I could name them now; and if challenged I
might do so. "
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NEW WAY PROPOSED TO BROADCAST CONGRESSIONAL DOINGS
In a letter addressed to Representative F. Edward Hebert
of Louisiana, former Governor James A. Noe, himself a broadcaster,
has suggested a new way for Congress to be put on the air. Governor
Noe nas sent copies ofnhis letter to the heads of the four broad¬
casting systems - NBC, CBS, Blue and MBS. It reads in part:
"We, the people, read the columnists and listen to the
commentators to learn what is going on in Congress. Of course, I
am sure these gentlemen are sincere in what they say, or write,
but they give it to us only as they see it. I believe the people
of the United States would themselves prefer to have it direct from
Congress. That is why I am writing you this letter.
"I am the owner of a radio broadcast station in New
Orleans. We are affiliated with the Mutual Broadcasting System.
At that station, I donate time for any purpose that will be of
interest to the people. I believe that the four leading broadcast
systems - the National, the Blue Network, Mutual, and Columbia
would all be glad to donate an hour each week - or whatever time
would be needed - for a discussion by the Congressmen themselves
which would tell the people Just what is going on or has gone on in
Congress for the . preceding week, to be carried by all stations in
the Nation who wish to afford their listeners this service.
"This broadcast time could be equally divided between
the two major political parties who, in turn, could select the per¬
sons to represent them on the air in discussing what has occurred
in Congress. This time could be scheduled at the same hour each
week so that everyone in the Nation would know when the discussion
was to take place. I believe that it would carry the largest lis¬
tening audience in the United States because now, of all times,
we want the facts from Congress as to what is taking place.
"Let the Democrats in the Senate, select a Senator from
their ranks each week, and the Republicans select a Senator from
their side; and let the Democrats in the House select a Representa¬
tive from their ranks each week, and the Republicans select a
Representative from their side. In this manner, each party could
make its own selection as to wno would carry the broadcast to the
people each week. Representatives of the minority parties should
be heard at various intervals. "
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Says Drew Pearson: "When tne War Department shows news¬
men a radar instrument at Fort Monmouth, officials imposed secrecy,
even forbidding mention of the word. Same day Time oublished a
full account of the device. "
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SAYS PETRILLO RULE MUST SATISFY ADMINISTRATION
About the same time the Government was granted the right
in Chicago to attempt to force James C. Petrillo and his American
Federation of Musicians to end their ban on making recordings for
radio stations and Juke boxes, the New York Times came out with an
unusually caustic editorial captioned “Why Mr. Petrillo Rules”, one
of the several editorials which the Times has had on the subject.
It read:
” James Caesar Petrillo has the power to force practically
every musician in the country to join his union. He has the power
to tell these musicians when and how and whether or not they can
make recordings. He has the private arbitrary power to tell the
American people what music they can and cannot hear. This has Just
been confirmed by a decision of the highest court in the land. The
Administration must be perfectly satisfied with this condition of
affairs, as it has never proposed any revision in the law to change
it. Congress must acquiesce in this arrangement, because it has
never passed, nor is it now considering any law to end it. ”
Federal Judge John P. Barnes last Thursday in Chicago
filed a memorandum opinion stating he would hear the Governments
case on its merits and directing Mr. Petrillo and other AFM offici¬
als to answer the Government’s petition for an Injunction against
them within 20 days.
"This complaint raises Issues neither raised nor ruled
upon in the earlier suit”, Judge Barnes said.
A previous editorial in the New York Times concludes:
"Mr. Petrillo, in short, can lay down the law to the phono-
grapn companies, the recording comoanies, the radio companies, and
to the members of his own union; but nobody can lay down the law to
Mr. Petrillo. The Supreme Court emphasized this fact by affirming
the Chicago Federal Court ruling that the Government could not
prosecute the American Federation of Musicians under the anti-trust
laws because it will not permit new records to be made for juke box
and radio reproduction.
”As long as Congress acquiesces in the Supreme Court's
decision that labor unions enjoy sweeping immunity from the anti¬
trust acts and from the Federal anti- racketeering act; as long as
Congress forces employers to recognize and deal with unions, but
does nothing whatever to compel these unions to conduct their
affairs democratically or responsibly; as long as Congress retains
a law which forces an individual to join a union, whether he wants
to or not, because his source of livelihood would otherwise be cut
off by boycott of himself or his employer, or by other means - as
long as Congress tolerates all this, we shall continue to have
private dictators like Petrollo; and they will continue to find
further means for enriching their treasuries and extending their
rowers. ”
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EACH SIDE CLAIMS VICTORY IN WINCHELL CASE
Both sides claimed to be the winners in Secretary Knox
putting out of service Walter Winchell, radio commentator and
newspaper columnist and a Lieutenant Commander in the Naval Reserve.
Mr. Knox said '‘Winchell is placed on the inactive list and I have
no intention of reclling him to active duty. "
Chairman Vinson of the House Naval Affairs Committee said:
"I regard the action of Secretary Knox the wise and proper thing to
do. This closes our hearings and so far as we are concerned settles
the whole Winchell matter. "
Nevertheless despite the fact that the Naval Affairs Com¬
mittee has now washed its hands of Mr. Winchell, there is every
reason that the commentator will continue to be a target in Congress
and will also bob up in the forthcoming investigations of the
Federal Communications Commission although the latter body has no
powers of censorship.
Mr. Winchell added to the confusion of the situation by
saying that he was on the inactive status before the Knox order,
and as for his future, he would continue "fight against the under¬
cover menace no longer strangled by gold braid". He said that
those who had tried to force him off the air-waves had failed.
Mr. Winchell further told an Interviewer that as a result
of the criticism he had offered his resignation from the Navy last
Tuesday but that "a spokesman for the Government" whom he was not
at liberty to identify, had refused to accept it.
Representative Hoffman, on hearing that Mr. Winchell was
inactive status, commented in a statement that "every fighting man
and officer in the Navy should rejoice at the action". He called it
a "boon to naval morale", adding that "no longer will the Navy wince
at the spectacle of a Broadway gossiper sporting a Lieutenant Com¬
mander's stripes while he snoops about night clubs in search of sexy
tidbits".
Commenting on the case, Walter Trahan wrote in the Wash¬
ington Time s-He raid :
"The action, announced by Knox, did not strip Winchell
from his uniform. That was taken from him last April, as the result
of widespread criticism of his wearing a fighting uniform on his
gossip collecting rounds of Broadway night clubs and for his radio
broa dcasts.
"Last Night Winchell was boasting in a public place here
that he has a letter of commendation from Knox which he is going to
publish in a few days.
"Winchell exposed the two and a half strioes of gold braid
on his uniform sleeves to nothing more tarnishing than scotch and
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soda. He confined his fighting to what Representative Hoffman call¬
ed abusive language over the ether waves.
"Nor did the return to the inactive status take anything
out of the Winchell pockets. His pay checks were taken from him at
the same time that he was ordered not to wear his uniform, according
to the Navy Department, although his name was continued on the
active rolls.
"Several House committee members were reported to be
ready to recomnend Winchell5 s dismissal from the service for con¬
duct unbecoming to an officer. These committee members were pre¬
pared to strike out the words 5 and gentleman5 from the time-honored
naval phrase 5 conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman* in a
denunciation of Winchell.
"Knox's move in returning Winchell to inactive status was
regarded as his only contribution to naval strategy. It was seen
as saving the gossioer, who is known as a friend of President
Roosevelt, from possible court-martial. "
Prior to Secretary Knox's order, Representative Hoffman
took a final swat at Mr. Winchell on the floor of the House when
he said:
"In his latest broadcast the keyhole peeper gave us two
pieces of news which he seemed to think of great importance to the
Nation. He said that two women, and he named them, were about to
experience the 'blessed event5, I hope that the Army and Navy,
particularly the Navy in which he serves takes notice of the valu¬
able contribution to the war effort of this individual.
"What he forgot was to advise the people of this annual
report of the Federal Trade Commission for the fiscal year ended
June 30, 1942. I read from page 42 of this report a few days ago.
On page 62 of the same report I find this statement:
"' Jergens- Woodbury Sales Corporation, Cincinnati,
sixth circuit (Cincinnati), misrepresentation of germi¬
cidal properties of cold cream and soap. 5
"That is notice of a case which was then pending in the
court at Cincinnati, Ohio.
"He forgot to tell the people about that. "
X X X X X X X
The Associated Broadcasters, Inc., San Francisco, Calif.,
recently applied to the Federal Communications Commission for a
construction permit for new International Broadcast Station to be
operated on 6060, 7230, 9570, 11870, 15290, 17760, 21610 kilocycles,
power 50 kilowatts. Hours: share with WBOS and KWID on 6060, 9570,
11870; and share with KWID on 7230, 15290, 17760, 21610 kilocycles.
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FCC 0. K. ' S FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS* CONTRACTS WAIVER
The Federal Communications Commission has approved a reso¬
lution adopted by the Boards of Directors of Radio Corporation of
America and R. C. A. Communica tions, Inc., authorizing the waiver of
all preferential provisions in its contracts with foreign corres¬
pondents.
R. C.A. Communications was authorized to send the following
notice to each foreign correspondent with which it operats a direct
radiotelegraph circuit under a contract that all unrouted traffic
destined to the United States be transmitted over the RCAC circuit:
"At the request of the Board of War Communications
and the Federal Communications Commission of our Govern¬
ment, we desire to advise you that we hereby waive all
provisions in the traffic agreement or understanding we
have with you which might prevent tne establishment and
unrestricted operation of such other circuits between you
and other United States companies as you may wish to
establish, including any provision which might require
the transmission of all unrouted traffic over your circuit
with R.C.A. Communications, Inc. "
The Commission is advising all other telegraph carrier
licensees in the international field that similar action should be
taken by them.
X X X X X X X
CONFEREES REACH ACCORD IN WIRE MERGER
Senate and uouse conferees have agreed on terms of a bill
to permit the merger of Postal Telegraph Co. with Western Union.
The principal point of contention, Job security for
affected employees has been adjusted.
Senior employees, employed before March 1, 1941, may not
be discharged, except for cause, for four years from the date of
approval of the merger. Junior employees, hired since March 1, 1941,
may either be retained for the same period of time after the merger
as they served before, or they may be dismissed with one month’s
severance pay for each year employed.
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The Commission en banc last Tuesday amended Section 1.366
of its Rules of Practice and Procedure, regarding Special Service
authorizations, so as to limit the provisions thereof to standard
broadcast stations, international broadcast stations, and point-to-
point stations only in connection with the furnishing of facilities
for an international broadcast service.
The General Electric Radio, Television and Electronics
Department will henceforth be known as tne Electronics Department,
according to an announcement by Dr. W. R. G. Baker, Vice President
in charge of the Department.
Master Laboratories, Inc. , Omaha, Nebr. , compounding and
selling hog and poultry medicinal preparations recommended for use
in the prevention of and treatment for various hog and poultry dis¬
eases and ailments, are charged in complain issued by the Federal
Trade Commission with misrepresentation. The complaint charges
that in advertisements in newspapers, and periodicals, by radio con¬
tinuities and other media, the respondent falsely represented same.
Henry P. Kasner, a radio engineer with the Radio Corpora
tion of America for more than thirty years, died last week after a
brief illness, Mr. Kasner was 53 years old.
General Electric has announced a new voltage stabilizer
which provides a constant output of 115 volts from circuits varying
between 95 and 130 volts. The new stabilizer can be applied wher¬
ever close voltage regulation is requisite to good operation - in
radio transmitters, electronic-tube apparatus, motion-picture sound
equipment and projectors, telephone apparatus, X-Ray machines, photo¬
cell equipment and in the calibration of meters, Instruments and
relays.
Twenty-one banks, including Continental Illinois National
Bank and Trust Company and the ^irst National Bank of Chicago, have
agreed to make a 30 million dollar credit available to Philco cor¬
poration, Philadelphia, officials of the radio manufacturing company
have announced. The loan, for three years, is 80 percent guaranteed
by the War Department under the Reserve Board’s regulation V and
was arranged to provide additional working capital to finance the
company's large production of electronic equipment for the Army and
Navy, Larry E. Gubb, Chairman, and James T. Buckley, president , said.
Tne company, with plants in Chicago, Philadelphia, Trenton, N.J. ,
and Sandusky, 0. , completed its conversion to war work several
months ago, the officials said.
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MUTUAL PROGRAM DIRECTORS WILL ATTEND 1943 CLINIC
Plans to expand and develop program schedules of the
Mutual Broadcasting System, with special emphasis placed on pro¬
gramming that will aid the war effort, will highlight the first
program clinic conferences of the network to start Monday (Febru¬
ary 22). The meetings will be attended by program officials from
twelve key Mutual network member and affiliated stations, repre¬
sentatives of the Office of Censorship and the Office of War
Information, and Mutual network executives.
Miller McClintock, President of the Mutual network, will
open the sessions presenting to the clinic an overall program
operation plan.
The clinic, presided over by Adolph Opfinger, Network
Program Manager, will resume on Thursday (February 25) so that
station program officials can attend BMI industry music meetings
on February 23 and 24.
Eugene Carr will represent the Office of Censorship and
Merritt Barnum and Jack Van Nostrand will represent the O.W.I,
Mutual station program heads last met with network
officials in Cleveland last September, there reconstructed a day¬
time program pattern of news commentary on the hour every hour
merged with light music fare and war effort features.
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MARITIME “M" AWARDED TO RADIOMARINE CORPORATION
The Maritime "M" Pennant, the Victory Fleet Flag, and
Maritime Merit Badges for all employees have been awarded to the
Radiomarine Corporation of America, Charles J. Pannill, President,
was notified this week in a telegram from Admiral H. L. Vickery,
USN (Ret.), Commissioner of the United States Maritime Commission.
Radiomarine, which produces marine radio communications equipment,
received the Army-Navy "E'! flag last December.
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INDEX TO ISSUE OF FEBRUARY 23, 1943
RMA Sees "Victory” Parts Saving Public Sets., . 1
Scrapping Of Abandoned Aerials Urged . 2
House Dies "Crackpot" Probe May Begin Today
FCC Rules Against Power Increase .
N.Y. Stores Must pay General Rate For Radio Mention...
Mackay Will Set Up Algeria Radio Circuit .
Foreign Wire And Radio Merger To Follow WU-Postal. . . . .
Says Small Stations Essential Though Wobbly .
G. O.P. Accuses White House Of Commandeering Radio Time
WPB Reports Radio Production Increased 13 Times .
Sees Only Congress Stooping Petrillo .
FCC Congressional Probe Gets National Spotlight.......
Trade Notes. . . . . . . 10
Further Radio Chassis Price Regulations In Prospect . . . 11
New G. E. Home Television Movie Now Available . 11
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RMA SEES "VICTORY" PARTS SAVING- PUBLIC SETS
How the public* s receiving sets, which are fast falling by
the wayside, are to be maintained by "Victory" tubes and parts, and
also how other troublesome war production problems may be solved,
were questions with which the Executive Committee of the Radio Manu¬
facturers* Association wrestled with at its recent meeting in New
York.
The industry program for maintenance, with replacement
tubes and parts, of radio receivers in public use was discussed at
length by the Committee, and further cooperation with broadcasters,
radio distributors and other agencies, including WPB, was orojected
in connection with the WPB program, scheduled soon, for production
of "Victory" tubes and parts. During the meeting at New York, a
conference was held with President G-eorge D. Barbey and a Committee
of the National Electronics Distributors' Association for further
cooperation on the industry's radio maintenance projects. Progress
reports on RMA action in connection with the replacement components
program were made, respectively, by Chairman Balcom of the ^ube
Division and Chairman Sparrow of the Parts Division.
In the military production field, the Executive Committee
authorized extension, with a substantially increased budget, of
standardization work by the Association's Engineering Department,
headed by Director W. R. G. Baker, of General Electric. The WPB
Radio and Radar Division requested RMA to proceed with a project
for standardization, Including reduction in commercial types, of
broadcast transmitting, therapeutic and similar types of tubes rang¬
ing in number between 210 and 250. In addition, the Engineering
Department is going ahead, in cooperation with the Army and Navy,
with standardization of military transmitting and receiving apparatus.
In connection with future commercial development of
electronics apparatus, the Executive Committee arranged for a survey
of opinion from the RMA membership as to whether or not the name of
the Association should be changed to provide for its specific inclu¬
sion. The survey will be made by the Organization and By-Laws Com¬
mittee, of which Leslie F. Muter, of Chicago, is Chairman, and recom¬
mendations will be made to the RMA Board of Directors at its next
meeting, scheduled in April, for possible future action by the
entire membership.
^rther RMA action in the electronics and transmitting
apparatus fields also was taken by the Association's Transmitting
Division, of which G. W, Kenyan, of Schenectady, is Chairman.
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In extension of membership services, a change in the
quarterly index of the radio patent bulletin service was authorized
by the Executive Committee, An improved, simplified index of radio
patents will hereafter be provided. Extension of the RMA weekly
programs of foreign broadcasting stations, furnished to many daily
newspapers, also was arranged by the addition of programs of a large
number of new Latin American stations now heard regularly in this
country.
Membership in RMA continues to increase, and among the
newly elected members, including several electronics manufacturers,
whose applications were approved by the RMA Executive Committee at
New York, are the following:
The Benwood Linze Co. , of St. Louis, Mo. ; Boonton Radio
Corporation, of Boonton, N. J. ; Eitel-McCullough, Inc., of San Bruno,
Calif.; Haydu Brothers of Plainfield, N.J. ; Sperti, Inc., of Cincin¬
nati, Ohio, and Templetone Radio Company of Mystic, Conn.
The manufacturers were advised that employers generally
are deferring action, pending issuance of further interpretations
and regulations by the War Manpower Commission, in connection with
tne Executive Order of February 9 establishing a minimum workweek of
48 hours on March 31 in 32 labor shortage areas. In the 32 specif¬
ied areas, employers are asked not to release workers before March 31,
but tnose on less than a 48-hour basis are requested to stop recruit¬
ing additional workers until a 48-hour week is established.
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SCRAPPING OF ABANDONED AERIALS URGED
Salvage of abandoned radio aerials was suggested last wee k
to the District Salvage Committee by '’ham" operator Robert Topham,
of amateur station W3HBK, 27-year-old invalid, of 1337 Meridan Place,
Northwest, in Washington, D. C. , who pointed out that "most modern
radios receive Just as well without antennae".
Although unable to estimate the quantity of copper and
steel which could thus be sa.lvaged, Stuart McGee, Assistant Execu¬
tive Secretary, said that "thousands of feet" of wire are all over
the city, and would constitute a valuable addition to the scrap
drive .
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Vice Admiral Raymon Fenard, head of French Military
Mission (Giraud) in the United States, spoke last week on shortwave
broadcasts to Fra.nce and French Empire, under auspices of the Office
of War Information.
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HOUSE DIES "CRACKPOT" PROBE MAY BEGIN TODAY
It was Indicated that the special House investigating
committee hearings to go into charges by Representative Dies ( D) , of
Texas, that there are "crackpot bureaucrats" in the Government ser¬
vice with Communistic sympathies, may begin as early as today
( February 23 ) .
Chairman Kerr ( D) , of North Carolina, said the Committee
had not decided whether its proceedings would be open. A majority
of tne five members are reported to be strongly in favor of a secret
investigation.
Chairman Kerr said the first witness would be William
Pickens, colored, official of the Treasury, whose name was among 39
listed by Mr. Dies, head of the Un-American Investigating Committee,
as having been connected with alleged Communistic front organizations.
He will be followed by seven other Government officials - three of
wnom are with the Federal Communications Commission - whose salaries
are provided in the Independent Offices Appropriation Bill passed by
the House several days ago.
Vain efforts were made by the Committee in advance of the
investigation to get legal assistance. The position of committee
counsel was offered former Representative Umstead of North Carolina.
He turned it down, however, on the ground that his law practice in
Durham demanded all his attention.
Chairman Kerr said the Committee would proceed with the
Inquiry, however. Voluminous data from the files of the Dies Com¬
mittee and the Federal Bureau of Investigation already are in its
possession.
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FCC RULES AGAINST POWER INCREASE
The Federal Communications Commission announces adoption
of its Proposed Findings of ^act and Conclusions, proposing to deny
without prejudice the application of Kanawah Valley Broadcasting
Co. (WGKV), Charleston, W. Va. , for construction permit to make
changes in transmitting equipment and increase power from 100 to 250
watts.
The Commission also announces adoption of its Proposed
Findings of Fact and Conclusions, proposing to deny without prejudice
the application of Paducah Broadcasting Co., Inc. (WSON) , Henderson,
Ky. , for modification of construction permit to increase power from
250 watts to 500 watts, daytime only, using the frequency 860 kilo¬
cycles, and for authority to make changes in transmitting equipment.
In reaching decision in the above cases, the Commission
based its conclusions upon the policy announced in a Memorandum
Opinion in April, 1942, which specifically refers to the use and
not to the acquisition of materials.
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N.Y. STORES MUST PAY GENERAL RATE FOR RADIO MENTION
The recent ruling by New York newspapers that retail copy
which mentions a radio program must pay the general advertising rate
has virtually eliminated this practice, Editor & Publisher stated
tnis week. In a few cases separate small copy is now used at the
national rate to advertise radio programs formerly mentioned in
store advertising.
The uniform ruling adopted by the metropolitan dailies
reads: "Radio Program advertising does not properly come under the
classification of Retail advertising and, therefore, does not qualify
for the Retail rate. Advertising of a radio program, regardless of
sponsorship or by whomsoever offered, is acceptable at the General
advertising rate. Such advertising may be part of an advertisement -
either institutional in nature or offering goods or services for
sale - if the entire advertisement is paid for at the General Adver¬
tising rate".
The ruling, which became effective January 1, applied to
radio programs the established practice of charging the national
rate when retail copy did not comply with the precept that retail
rates are based on the use of such advertising for the sale of
merchandise at retail. Previously, when store advertising mentioned
resorts, steamships and travel, or featured a theatre play in which
the store's gowns were worn, it was not permitted to run at the
retail rate.
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MACKAY WILL SET UP ALGERIA RADIO CIRCUIT
The Federal Communications Commission has granted special
temporary authority to Mackay Radio and Telegraph Co. to operate a
radiotelegraph circuit between the United States and Algeria, for a
period of three months, conditioned in the following manner:
"(1) Since the rates to be applied to the proposed direct
service are the same as the rates formerly in effect for indirect
service between the same points, such rates appear to be prima facie
unreasonable. The Commission at this time does not desire to delay
the institution of the proposed direct service pending a determina¬
tion of the question of the justness and reasonableness of the
applicable rates and accordingly, such question will be subject to
separate inquiry or upon application for renewal of this authoriza¬
tion; (2) further, that a broadcast control channel be provided
daily from 1200 to 1400 GMT, and from 2130 to 2330 GMT, for facili¬
tating transmission of program material from Algeria to the United
States. " The Commission further authorized the use of A3 emission
for this contact control circuit.
At the same time, the
of R. C.A. Communications, Inc.,
authority to establish a direct
same points as above.
Commission denied the applications
and Press Wireless, Inc. , requesting
radiotelegraph circuit between the
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FOREIGN WIRE AND RADIO MERGER TO FOLLOW WU-POSTAL
With the Western Union-Postal merger bill awaiting the
President's signature, the necessity is evidently now seen for a
revision of the international end in a merger of the cable and radio
systems. Asked about this, Chairman James L. Fly of the Federal
Communications Commission said:
"Yes, the international merger has become more obviously
necessary every day, and I think everyone will come to the conclu¬
sion ere long that it is essential. To take a single example, look
at the tremendous embarrassment to us to be forced to pick out one
company to go to Algeria. That was not an easy thing to do, and now
we have an application for Dakar. I am wondering what will happen to
all the Government' s facilities as soon as the war is over. We will
have quite an array of Government facilities after the war - not
that the Commission has anything to do with that. What are we going
to do with these?
"There are many conditions that are piling up that really
point to the conclusion that a lot of us around here have been
pointing to for many a day - that is the necessity of having a com-
orehensive integrated single commercial system of international com¬
munications.
"You know, also, this new statute provides for the divest¬
ment of the interna tional facilities by domestic carriers - that is
something which we expect to take place fairly promptly. In the
first place, we want a domestic carrier that does not have any dif¬
ficult relations in the domestic field and difficult problems with
international carriers that may be in competition with the combined
companies, and that it seems to me is a very good reason why we have
got to get all these international companies together. From almost
any practical angle the thing won't work except upon the basis of
a single integrated system - especially in dealing with foreign
monopolies. "
Discussing the Western Union-Postal merger, Mr. Fly said:
"I think we will make some progress on that matter and I
imagine that we will have rather expeditious consideration of* the
proposed transition by the private companies. I haven't talked with
them togetner recently but I have talked to tne heads of each of the
companies and I imagine that the proposed merger will move along
quite expeditiously. "
"It will probably mean that the telegraph service will be
worse than it has been, if possible", a newspaperman ventured.
"No", Mr. Fly replied, "I think we will have better tele¬
graph service when we get an integration of the properties so as to
use them to their optimum capacities. You see the great difficulty
in having parallel lines under different management is that you can't
use vacant capacities as they may occur, but where the telegraph is
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is under a single management you can fall back on whatever facilities
and personnel you have that can be adapted to the particular need.
To a less degree, of course, to a substantially less degree but to a
certain extent, you have the principle there of dealing with differ¬
ent resources for power. In certain areas you may have excessive
rainfall and in other areas you may have a drought, so if you have
the common pool it will continually flow to where it is needed most,
and it will be more nearly adequate than entirely separate systems.
I think, to a certain degree, you have that with the telegraph oro-
perties and personnel. "
"How long do you think it will be until they are thoroughly
integrated?" was asked.
"I would guess it would take a year to accomplish complete
physical integration. I don't think for a moment that integration
will come with the close of the financial and business transactions",
was the answer. "Of course it will take time and effort."
"Have you made any special staff arrangements to handle
the merger - within the Commission ? " the Chairman was asked.
"Well, we have a number of studies that have been going on
quietly; however, there has been no formal organization - that is,
interdepartmental groups - to consider the merger. No, we haven't
formalized it to that extent. The different departments have been
giving some attention to the underlying problems. It may well be
that we will get a more definitive organization going. I will look
into that shortly and see what's what", he replied.
"There will have to be hearings on each phase of it, won't
there, or will that come in with the entire plan?"
"I don't think so", Mr. Fly concluded. "I had not contem¬
plated that they would submit partial plans for formal approval. I
imagine that they will present the works. With the public hearings,
and tne different people who are interested - it will be a pretty
substantial proceeding, and I should be reluctant to think that we
would have to hold a series of different discussions on each phase of
it. I don't know what the permutations will be."
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War industries will get greater protection and law enforce¬
ment will be speeded up in eleven Connecticut cities and towns which
will soon have new two-way FM police radio systems developed by
General Electric electronics engineers. The communities getting the
new communications equipment are Bridgeport, Darien, Trumbull, Groton,
Westport, Bristol, New London, ^airfield, Plymouth, and Meriden.
Stratford's FM installation is already completed.
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SAYS SMALL STATIONS ESSENTIAL THOUGH WOBBLY
Chairman James L. Fly of the Federal Communications Commis¬
sion again took up the cudgel for the small stations which are now
shaky financially". Told that there seems to be an idea among some
advertisers that the financial plight of the small stations is not
particularly a war problem - that they have been in financial straits
for some time, Mr. Fly said:
"In the first place, I don’t think that is quite accurate
and in the second place, so what? Let’s assume they have been in a
bad way for a long time, but, too, let's assume they are very essen¬
tial to the nation and the people in time of war. "
"Well, is it the advertisers’ re soonsibility to keep up the
station?" he was asked.
"I haven't suggested that it is the re soonsibility of the
advertiser or any business concern of his at all in the premise. It
is not a question of fault or dereliction. It is a question of
recognizing certain circumstances which may very well enlist the
sympathetic attention of all of us who are promoting that very essen¬
tial public service", Mr. Fly replied.
"You have gone along a little further with these financial
statements - will we get a press notice through the regular channels?"
"Yes", Mr. Fly concluded, "eventually I will give you very
specific figures. As you know, though, the material has come in from
week to week more recently in driblets and I am rather convinced that
before we get out any definite statement we will consider the regular
annual reports. They will be in very shortly now and they will give
us a very comprehensive coverage of the whole problem, and I think
that the financial figures which we make up will be based on the regu¬
lar financial annual reports of the stations. "
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G.O.P. ACCUSES WHITE HOUSE OF COMMANDEERING RADIO TIME
That the White House commandeered radio time for talks by
President Roosevelt for Washington and Lincoln’s Birthday addresses
is charged by the Republican National Committee in a statement which
claimed that many ReDublican sneakers who had been scheduled for
weeks ahead were "forced off the air" when the Lincoln Day address
by President Roosevelt was announced two days before the anniversary.
It added:
"The possibility that the White House, in announcing this
speech, was thinking in political terms was indicated by the fact
that the same announcement by Secretary Stephen Early stated that
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the President 'at the Invitation of the Chairman of the Democratic
National Committee, would address by radio the $100-a~plate diners
of the party on George Washington's birthday.
The Republican statement continued that "all radio time is
again being commandeered as though it were an official presidential
speech' .
"Thus", it continued, "those who agree or disagree with
the politics of the President are being compelled either to listen
to the address or turn off their radios. "
The statement concluded:
"On February 12, therefore, the White House boldly inter¬
fered with the dissemination of opposition doctrine by radio and in
the press. Ten days later, on Washington's birthday, it takes the
next step toward breaking down two-party government by commandeering
all radio stations to participate in a fund-raising party for its
political party. "
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WPB REPORTS RADIO PRODUCTION INCREASED 13 TIMES
An annual saving of two million tons of critical metals,
and untold tonnage of other essential materials, are being made
through restrictions and curtailments of production of hundreds of
civilian household articles, the Consumers Durable Goods Division of
the War Production Board reported recently in reviewing conservation
actions within its own administration up to the first of this year.
This mention is made of radio:
"The cutoff date for the manufacture of radio sets was
April 22, 1942, although a number of appeals were granted which con¬
tinued civilian production several weeks longer. Production of
standardized parte, including tubes, has been continued. Savings
include a majority of critical materials, principally, steel, copper,
zinc, aluminum, and nickel. In 1941 there were 55 comoanles in the
home radio industry, employing 30,000 persons and doing an annual
business of nearly a quarter of a billion dollars. All existing
plants are converted to production of radio and communication equip¬
ment or other war products for the armed forces, with production of
military radios alone well above a billion dollar annual leve. By
the close of last year this industry's war production had increased
13 times compared to the first of that year. "
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SEES ONLY CONGRESS STOPPING PETRILLO
The newspapers keep hammering away at Petrillo. This edi¬
torial is from the Washington Star:
"It is coincidental that a final effort by the Government
to employ the Sherman Anti-Trust Act to deal with labor restraints
should be nullified by the Supreme Court as Assistant Attorney Gener¬
al Thurman Arnold prepares to give uo the direction of the Antl-^rust
Division of the Justice Department to go on the Court of Appeals.
"Undeterred by continued rebuffs in labor cases by the
Suoreme Court, Mr. Arnold engaged Jajnes Caesar Petrillo, head of the
American Federation of Musicians, in what amounted to a last-ditch
action, seeking to end the ban applied by the union leader on the
production of musical recordings by union musicians. Denied an in¬
junction by a Federal District Court in Chicago, which was guided by
earlier decisions of the Supreme Court in similar proceedings, Mr.
Arnold once more appealed to the high tribunal - with the usual
result. In a few sentences, the court affirmed the judgment of
District Court on the ground that the issue involved a labor dispute,
and that under the circumstances issuance of an injunction was for¬
bidden by the Norris-LaGuardia Act.
"The Justice Department has another injunction suit pending
against the musicians* union, but even though a slightly different
approach is being taken, the outcome hardly can be said to be in
doubt. The repeatedly expressed philosophy of the Suoreme Court is
that activities designed to advance the economic interests of labor
are beyond the reach of existing law, and the tribunal has set ex¬
ceedingly liberal standards for such activities. The disposition of
the Petrillo case simply demonstrates once more that a change can
come only through act of Congress. "
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FCC CONGRESSIONAL PROBE GETS NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT
In an article captioned "Washington Fights", Life (February
22) showing how Congress is turning on the Administration and of
clashes between various personalities, has this to say of the fight
over radio between Representative Cox (D. ), of Georgia and Chairman
James L. Fly of the Federal Communications Commission:
"Representative Eugene Cox of Georgia last month was appoint¬
ed Chairman of a five-man Congressional Committee to investigate the
Federal Communications Commission and its Chairman, James Lawrence
Fly. Fly and the FCC, meanwhile, have been investigating Cox on the
grounds that he received a fee for representing an Albany, Ga. , radio
station while a member of Congress. Cox has charged Fly with the use
of * high-handed methods’, and damned ^CC as ' Gestapo. .. Reds. .. the
nastiest nest of rats to be found in the entire country.* Fly, who
has been trying to break up alleged monopoly of radio by huge net¬
works, hones eventually to establish Government control of all com¬
munications. Cox opposes such control, and his committee will hold
hearings to determine if such wqc actions are 'according to law and
in the public interest. * "
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TRADE NOTES
The Crosley Corporation of Cincinnati has applied to the
Federal Communications Commission for a construction permit for a
new 200 KW International Broadcast Station with the frequencies of
6080, 9590 and 11710, 15250, 17800 and 21650, A3 emission.
The Army-Navy "E" has been awarded to Colonial Radio Com¬
pany in Buffalo and the Earns wo rth television and Radio Corporation
at Marion, Indiana.
Radio production and sales continued to decline in Canada
during the third quarter of 1942, according to the Dominion1 s Bureau
of Statistics. The greatest drop was in production, only 16,255 sets
being manufactured in the third quarter of 1942, compared with
114,470 during the corresponding months of 1941.
"Post-War Horizons", the address by David Sarnoff of the
Radio Corporation of America before tne Chamber of Commerce of the
State of New York has now been reprinted in pamphlet form.
Judge Aron Steuer last week granted a motion to dismiss
tne action brought by Denton & Haskins Corporation and Gem Music
Corporation to obtain a declaratory judgment against the American
Society of Composers, Autnors & Publishers (ASCAP). The plaintiffs
in the action sought to define whether ASCAP would retain their
public performing rights in their catalogs after December 31, 1950,
when tneir contract with the Society expires. The motion for dis¬
missal was argued last week by Louis D. Frohlich of ASCAP' s general
counsel, Schwartz and Frohlich.
War workers' production ideas saved 1,250,000 man-hours in
General Electric plants during 1942, according to a statement by the
Company, announcing that a record $158,943 was paid lest year for
16,204 suggestions adopted of 53,945 submitted.
The Columbia Broadcasting System announced last week the
affiliation of Station WWNY, Watertown, N. Y. , beginning approximate¬
ly March 1. WWNY broadcasts on a frequency of 790 kilocycles with
1,000 watts power, full time.
After only five broadcasts, the NBC-Red Cross program,
"That They Might Live" tons all previous potential audience records
for an NBC sustaining series, with 125 stations accepting the show.
Television Productions, Inc. , Los Angeles, Calif. (W6XYZ)
has applied to the vpderal Communications Commission for modifica¬
tion of a construction permit for extension of completion date to
9/15/43.
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FURTHER RADIO CHASSIS PRICE REGULATIONS IN PROSPECT
Further OPA price regulations covering sale of civilian
set chassis and also of assembly of chassis with cabinets, also
conversion of automobile sets to home receivers, especially by radio
Jobbers, are in prospect. A price formula covering the sale of
chassis by manufacturers, and a price ceiling regulation covering
the assembly of chassis with cabinets, and also the conversion of
automobile receivers, are under consideration, according to OPA
officials.
A preliminary step toward these objectives was a recent
letter sent to set manufacturers and to a large number of radio
distributors by Alfred Auerbach, OPA Price Executive of the Consumers
Durable Goods Branch. This letter called for a report on all sales
of chassis, including dates, quantities, prices, stock numbers, etc.
It was pointed out that chassis sales are subject to the OPA Parts
Schedule No. 84. OPA interprets ’’parts" to include chassis, and
manufacturers who have not previously and customarily sold chassis
must receive prior approval from OPA of their chassis prices.
X X X X X X X
NEW G.E. HOME TELEVISION MOVIE NOW AVAILABLE
The wonders of home entertainment made possible through
the medium of television are presented in General Electric's new
television movie, "Sightseeing at Home", which has Just been released.
The movie was made at General Electric's Television Studio, WRGB,
at Schenectady, New York.
The movie traces the steps which a picture takes from the
time it leaves the television camera in the studio until it is shown
on the screen of the receiver set. Thirty complete pictures are
televised every second in the form of single electric impulses, and
every second 4,000,000 impulses reach the receiver set. How these
impulses strike the screen In single file, but in such rapid suc¬
cession that they flash on as a single picture, is shown by means of
animated diagrams. The method of planning settings and programs is
snown, together with the method of directing actual television broad¬
casts.
"Sightseeing at Home" is available to schools, colleges,
churches, service men's clubs and other organizations, at no cost
otner than transportation charges. The film may be obtained from
General Electric film distribution centers in major cities or by
writing to the Visual Instruction Section, Schenectady, N. Y.
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INDEX TO ISSUE OF FEBRUARY 26, 1943
Congress Is After The Commentators . 1
Advocated Paid Radio Time For Congress... . . . 3
Dakar Radio Service Approved . 4
More RCA Workers Cited For Valuable War Suggestions..... . 5
N. Y. Rejection May Toss Petrillo Back To Senate . 6
FCC Adopts New FM And Television Policies . 7
Cited For Brass Saving . . .
Believes Radio Increases Desire To See Artists
Turning The Searchlignt On The Bureaucrats....
N. Y. School Board Accredits NBC Air University ........... . 9
Trade Notes . . . . . . . 10
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CONGRESS IS AFTER THE COMMENTATORS
When Representative F. Edward Hebert (which he tells us In
the Congressional Directory is pronounced ”A-Bear"), a Democrat of
New Orleans, blew up and wrote Ray Clapper, radio and newspaper com¬
mentator a 7,000 word letter, he tipped his hand on what was really
in the minds of many Congressmen with regard to radio. They want to
muzzle the commentators.
It was this letter from Representative Hebert to Mr.
Clapper that brought the suggestion to the networks from former
Governor James A. Noe, of Louisiana, owner of a station himself of
a plan for members of Congress to broadcast their own reports. A
certain amount of time would be equally divided between the two
political parties who, in turn, could select the Representatives or
Senators to appear on the air.
Indicative of the radio storm about to burst, the House
put over with a whoop the resolution of Representative Cox (D), of
Georgia to investigate the Federal Communications Commission and
its Chairman. Also there was enthusiastic approval of the 7-raan
probe of bureaucratic activities by Representative Smith ( D) , of
Virginia, which includes the Communications Commission.
If Representative Sparkman ( D) , of Alabama, could get his
resolution to the floor of the House (and he still expects to do it)
to investigate the entire broadcasting industry, It would probably
likewise be carried. The most significant demonstration was when
only the personal intervention of Speaker Rayburn, and the FCC's
enemy, Mr. Cox, prevented the House from abolishing the Commission
entirely by cutting off its appropriation.
There seems to be a feeling that all of this anti-radio
sentiment might lead up to the people that Congress would really
like to investigate - the commentators. Exterminate is a better
word for it.
Evidence of this was the way they got behind the resolution
of Representative Hoffman ( R) , of Michigan, to build a fire under
Walter Wlnchell. It promised to be such a hot fire that Chairman
Vinson and Secretary Knox quickly decided to put Walter in moth¬
balls for the duration. It is doubtful, however, if the incident
is ended. This writer believes Mr. Winchell will continue to be a
Congressional target.
The commentators have gotten under the skin of certain
Representatives and Senators who are now trying to do to them what
^DR and the Administration tried to do to the newspapers after the
last election. And in the suit against the Associated Press.
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Since a broadcasting station operates under a Government
franchise, certain members ofCongress seem to have a feeling if they
whack down on New Dealer Fly, and perhaps the broadcasting industry
hard enough, the commentators may be gagged,. If not, they believe
a way may be found to take away their station licenses.
The letter which Representative Hebert, himself a news¬
paperman, former city editor of the New Orleans States, wrote
required 2b pages of agate type in the Congressional Record, and
was addressed to Mr. Clapper and ’’all radio commentators and column¬
ists who will cover the present Congress”. Mr, Hebert said that
Ray Clapper had an article in the Cosmopolitan Magazine which, the
gentleman from Louisiana said, was so unfair that he had written to
its editor in the hope the latter would give both sides of the ques¬
tion. The editor didn’t publish the letter. It reads, in part, as
follows :
’’Members of Congress are at a distinct disadvantage in
presenting their views and opinions to their constituency and to the
American public. Tney are literally in the hands of the newspaper
reporter and the radio commentator. ^he newspaper reporter, through
the newspapers of the country, has a potential field of millions of
readers. The radio commentator, in my opinion, has an even greater
field, because, since the advent of the radio, millions of men and
women depend on the radio newscast and the expressions of individual
commentators for their main source of news and information.
’’Members ofCongress, on the contrary, have a limited aud¬
ience whicn, in comparison to the field covered by the newspapers
and the radio, is most insignificant. A Member of Congress, for
the better part, addresses sparsely filled galleries and has only
the limited circulation of the Congressional Record for complete
quotes.
"A newspaper reporter or radio news commentator holds the
1 i fe-and- death decision over what he will report to the Nation con¬
cerning Congress. His Judgment is final. His interpretation of
what is news is what reaches the general public. His opinion of the
value of what a Member of Congress says on the floor is what the
American public receives and not, in all too many cases, of what a
Member of Congress actually says or does, or what, in the final
analysis, is really the important thing. The reporter is constantly
on the alert for the punch lines which will make the headlines.”
"if honesty, sincerity of purpose, and devotion to country
is asked of every citizen, certainly it is not asking too much of
the press and radio of America in these trying times to exhibit the
same honesty, the same sincerity of purpose, and the same devotion
to country as demanded and expected of every other individual. "
"The future of America lies not only in what the Congress
individually will do, or what tne press and radio individually will
do, but in what Congress, press and radio will do together.”
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'•Well could the press and radio alike raise their hands
and take the oath of the courtroom witness to give the truth, the
whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help them God. "
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ADVOCATED PAID RADIO TIME FOR CONGRESS
In an editorial captioned: "Congress Needs Public Rela¬
tions Bureau”, the Times-Herald of Norristown, Pa., says:
"One of the most important musts for Congress is to buy
time over nation-wide radio hook-ups every week. This time could be
allotted as between the two parties and different members more or
less as is now done with membersnips and chairmanships of the many
Senate and House Committees. Speakers for different Congressional
points of view could be selected and allotted time by party caucuses.
The programs and the speeches themselves could be and should be pro¬
fessionally prepared with the aid of experts - experts both on the
subject under discussion and in the technique of writing end radio
presentation.
"As it is now, neither the Press nor the Radio is to blame
if the Executive has all the advantage over Congress in the matter
of access to the public mind. Propaganda by the Executive is pro¬
fessional in quality. The pronouncements of too many Congressmen on
public issues are, quite simoly, inadequate.
"The point is that we now have a professional executive
and an amateur Congress. "
Leading up to this the editorial reads:
"Congress can discuss intelligently and oooose effectively
before the bar of public opinion the policies and proposals of the
President only if Congress has technical facilities roughly compar¬
able to those commanded by the President. It is obviously out of
the question to place at the exclusive service of Congress a corps
of experts in all fields of government activity equally numerous and
well equipped as those at the command of the Executive. But if
Congress appropriated in the fiscal year 1942 some $27 million for
public relations services for the Executive, it could surely authorize
at least $10 million in this war year for presenting fairly and ade¬
quately to tne American people the discussions and views on public
issues of their elected representatives. * * *
"Lacking proper technical resources for examining public
policies and proposals of the Executive and for publicizing criticism
and opposite views, many members of Congress are forced to confine
tnemselves to sucn criticism as their meager facilities allow them to
make. The results, naturally, are bad for Congressional prestige and
more helpful than harmful to the Executive.
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" Criticisms by Congressmen of the Administration which
are inadequately or unfairly presented by the Press or Radio to the
public or which are promptly smothered with contradictions or dis¬
tortions by the Administration’s public relations experts are bound
to hurt the critics in the long run far more than the Administration.
The public, it must be recognized, does not, in any significant num¬
ber, read the Congressional Record. It gets only such ideas of
Congressional debates and speeches as the Press and Fhdio reports
are meant to convey.
5!In the give and take of Congressional debate these days,
tne Concessional spokesmen or leg-men of the White House always
take the floor of Congress or the air waves of the nation with care¬
fully prepared proposals, drafts of legislation, statements of policy
and propaganda while the opposition usually has to extemporize on the
basis of inadequate knowledge and with tne aid of wholly inexpert
technicians in the arts of propaganda, the Press and the Radio.
"Whenever the President wants to address the Nation he has
at his service a series of nation-wide hook-ups. Such addresses and
the slightest utterance of the President or any one of his myriad
Executive agents are featured in every newspaper from coast to coast.
Congressmen, as individuals, and the two Houses of the National
Legislature, as the highest institutions of representative government
in the country, have no such practical access to the public mind.
"Quite a few Congressmen are experts in certain fields of
public administration such as foreign affairs, military and naval
affairs, taxation and fiscal policy and the various branches of the
now growing governmental control of American life. And many Congress¬
men are experts with the written or spoken word. But most of them
are rank amateurs in modern propaganda. The professional politician
of pre-New Deal days is now almost extinct. The professional politi¬
cian of today knows how, in the words of the celebrated phrase of a
famous New Dealer, ‘to spend and spend and elect and elect.’ The
professional politician of today is an expert in spending and propa¬
ganda. To their credit, Congressmen, by and large, are experts in
neither. They sign the checks. But they also vote the tax bills.
They get the blame for the taxes. The President gets credit for the
spending. "
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DAKAR RADIO SERVICE APPROVED
R. C.A. Communications, Inc., received a special three-month
authorization this week from the Federal Communice tions Commission
to communicate directly with Dakar, French West Africa. The Company
will use stations at Rocky Point, N. Y. , New Brunswick and Tuckerton,
N.J. , and Marion, Mass., for point-to-point service with the French
colonial administration in Dakar.
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MORE RCA WORKERS CITED FOR VALUABLE WAR SUGGESTIONS
Eighty suggestions from war workers which have proven valu¬
able in saving man-hours and critical materials, or in otherwise
improving or increasing production, were described in detail by War
Production Drive Headquarters. Brief biographical sketches of award
winners accompanied the suggestions, representing 33 labor-manage¬
ment committees in 19 different States.
These included employees of the Radio Corooration of
America as follows:
The second woman ever to win a Certificate of Individual
Production Merit, Miss Gragnaniello , is a member of a methods group
at the Harrison plant of the RCA Victor Division of the Radio Corp¬
oration of America. Formerly a mounter on tubes, she has advanced
from a mount leader to a methods group. Her suggestion is an imorove-
ment In the method of mounting power tubes by the design of a Jig
and the rearrangement of the operations. This idea has enabled 1,000
assemblies to be done in 40 operator hours rather than in the former
83.
Another employee of the RCA Victor Harrison Division,
Joseph Dolinsky, suggested a change In certain piercing operations
in the manufacture of radio equipment. Formerly one hole was pierced
at 650 per hour and two others at 275 per hour. A new die enables
all the above operations to be done at once at a rate of 560 per
hour, accounting for a labor saving of 2600 man-hours annually.
Dolinsky, who has had a great deal of machine shoo experience, is a
foreman at the Harrison plant,
A supervisor of production control expeditors at the
Indianapolis plant of the RCA Victor Division of the Radio Corpora¬
tion of America, Woodrow Williams suggested that a die be made for
the stamping of characters on control panels and amplifier bases
instead of engraving them as had been the practice. The new method
does the work in from 1/5 to l/40 of the previous time, amounting to
a total saving of 5,000 man-hours per year, Williams, who is 28
years old, came to RCA in 1937 as a macnine operator and has served
as a material expeditor and a supervisor.
Joseph Lob, a working group leader at the RCA Victor Divi¬
sion of the Radio Corporation of America, Camden plant, devised a
method of checking gears with a two-wire system. His suggestion
replaces tedious handling of wires, micrometers, etc. , greatly in¬
creasing accuracy and cuts inspection time by two-thirds. Lob, 53
years old, has been a. tool maker and a machinist.
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N. Y. REJECTION MAY TOSS PETRILLO BACK TO SENATE
The rejection by the record and transcription companies
of tne settlement proposals of Jamies C. Petrillo and the American
Federation of Musicians and the observation of these companies that
they could not accept "such startling new kind of social philosophy
without the approval of Congress" is seen as the cue for Senator D.
Worth Clark (D) , of Idaho, and his subcommittee to again get busy.
Senator Clark had Mr. Petrillo on the grill for two whole
days and then let him off in the hope that the music president and
the record and manufacturers might get together someway. In the
meantime, the Senate hearings were recessed but now there it is
believed they will be resumed. Although no date has yet been set,
there is little doubt but that Senator Clark will again step into
the picture. This may not be a good break for Petrillo, whose sail¬
ing, facing an anti-Labor Congress, may not be smooth.
Those who joined in rejecting Mr. Petrillo’ s proposal in
New York earlier in the week were RCA Victor, Columbia Recording
Corporation, Decca Records, Inc. ; Associated Music Publishers, Inc. ;
Empire Broadcasting Corporation, Lang-Worth Reature Programs, Inc. ;
Muzak Corporation, the National Broadcasting Company’s recording
division, Standard Radio, World Broadcasting System and Soundies
Distributing Corporation.
These companies contended that there was "wholesale un¬
employment" among musicians and denounced as "dangerous and destruc¬
tive" his proposal that they pay a fee on each disk sold to finance
a union-controlled fund to aid needy members.
"Certainly membership in a union should not entitle a
member to special privileges from an industry which does not employ
him but happens to employ some of his fellow-members", the companies
wrote in a joint letter to Mr. Petrillo.
The letter maintained that 80 percent of all records sold
were for use in private homes and that their manufacture had boosted
tne employment of musicians.
"Thus, under your proposal, 80 percent ofyour tax would
ultimately fall squarely on the public which buys records for home
use and is in no way responsible for whatever unemploymentfyou may
claim exists", the companies told Mr. Petrillo.
The letter said that the Government "has provided taxes
for unemployment relief" and that "a second tax for a new private
system aimed at the same relief seems wholly unjustified."
The recording companies noted that while Mr. Petrillo com¬
plained about unemployment, he waited for seven months before pre¬
senting any proposals. This strategy in itself, the letter said,
contributed to the unemployment of his members.
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FCC ADOPTS NEW FM AND TELEVISION POLICIES
Because of extreme shortages in material, equipment and
skilled personnel, and in order to sustain the interest in television
and high frequency (EM) broadcasting, the Federal Communications Com¬
mission on Tuesday adopted the following oolicies:
FM BROADCASTING STATIONS - The Commission will not dismiss
or deny any FM applications which cannot qualify under the oro visions
of the Memorandum Ooinion of Aoril 27, 1942 (freeze order), for con¬
struction oermit s or for modification of construction permits request¬
ing extension of the periods of construction. Instead, the Commis¬
sion will take no action at this time unon such applications but
will retain them in the pending file. Applicants for construction
permits whose applications were surrendered or dismissed pursuant to
the Memorandum Oninion of April 27, 1942, may request reinstatement
of their applications.
The policy adopted is in addition to the policy announced
August 4, 1942, which provided for the issuance of licenses for high
frequency ( FM) broadcast stations during the war provided construc¬
tion had reached a point where substantial service could be rendered.
TELE VISION - Holders of construction permits for television
stations, experimental and commercial, may obtain licenses during the
war to operate existing facilities on either an experimental or com¬
mercial basis, provided construction has reached a. ooint where the
station is capable of rendering a substantial service. Licenses
issued under this policy will be subject to the condition that con¬
struction will be completed in accordance with the Rules, Regula¬
tions and Standards of the Federal Communications Commission as soon
as the necessary materials and engineering personnel become available.
The Commission also decided to continue its policy of not
dismissing or denying television applications which cannot qualify
under the provisions of the Memorandum Oninion of Anril 27, 1942.
Instead, no action will be taken at this time unon such applications
end they will be held in the pending file. Applicants for construc¬
tion permits for television stations whose construction permits have
been surrendered or dismissed pursuant to the freeze order may
request reinstatement of their applications.
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"Mikes Don5 1 Bite" is a new back-stage in radio book of
humor written by Helen Sioussant, Director of Radio Talks for Colum¬
bia Broadcasting System. Miss Sioussant has seen and heard all of
the celebrities broadcast and in that connection has had some amusing
experiences. The nrice of the book is 32.50.
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CITED FOR BRASS SAVING
For a design that saves 166,000,000 pounds of brass on the
present procurement of booster bodies used in the firing mechanisms
of 75-mm. and 105 mm. shells, Charles H. Godschall, Manager of the
Metal Division of Philco Corporation, and Lieut. Col. D. L. Wood-
berry, Army ordnance, have been officially cited by the Ordnance
Department of the United States Army for making "a marked contribu¬
tion to the vital war oroduction program to conserve critical
materials and machines”.
Savings of critical materials in the production of booster
bodies resulting from the new Philco design, according to the company
would be the equivalent of a column of brass 24 feet square as high
as the Wasnington Monument.
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BELIEVES RADIO INCREASES DESIRE TO SEE ARTISTS
That radio helps rather than hurts the box-office is the
contention of Ray C. 3. Brown, music critic of the Washington Post,
who writes:
"Providing a substitute for her regular Sunday radio
engagement, Gladys Swarthout made a personal appearance in Washing¬
ton Sunday to the evident delight of a large and cordial audience
in Constitution Hall. Those who once forecast that free hearing of
an artist on the air waves would seriously deplete box-office re¬
ceipts have had to eat their words. It would seem that radio has,
if anything, increased the natural curiosity to see the musical
artist at work, and that nothing can satisfactorily take the place
of the direct contact between artist and oublic. One doubts that
television, when perfected, will have the slightest effect in decrees
ing attendance at recitals. ”
X X X X X X X
TURNING THE SEARCHLIGHT ON THE BUREAUCRATS
Representative Howard W. Smith, Virginia Democrat, is get¬
ting his committee organized to investigate the "unauthorized activ¬
ities of the Federal Bureaus", This will probably include the
Federal Communications Commission but is not to be confused with the
probe of the Committee headed by Representative Cox ( D. ) , of Georgia.
Mr. Smith’s Committee may investigate all of the Government bureaus;
Mr. Cox only the FCC.
Explaining tne forthcoming investigation, Representative
Smith says:
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2/26/45
"The duties of Congress consist not only of passing laws,
but, also, of seeing that those laws are administered by the execut¬
ive agencies in accordance with the intent of Congress.
"In time of war it inevitably becomes necessary for the
Congress to grant extraordinary and unusual power to executive
agencies. Therefore, the Congress must assume the corresponding duty
of preventing any abuse of arbitrary use of those powers, and of
affording the people protection from such unwarranted action. The
committee will seek to discharge this duty as it receives complaints
of such unauthorized activities.
flIt is not the purpose of the committee to interfere in any
way with the most vigorous prosecution of the war, but rather to for¬
ward the war effort by preventing deliberate misinterpretation of
the acts of Congress against undue harassment. With this object in
view, the Committee will not hesitate to investigate or expose the
activities of any Federal agencies that persist in exceeding the
powers granted them by Congress. Executive agencies can, and should,
perform all of their necessary functions within the framework of the
authority granted them by the Constitution or the Congress. Those
who cannot or will not confine their functions to the authority
granted should seek otner fields of endeavor. "
According to one well-informed writer, while nothing in
the resolution permits the office of the Chief Executive to be in¬
quired into, it Is, of course, within the scope of the Inquiry to
determine the legality of various Executive Orders, many of which
are signed by the President in routine fashion, but which at bottom
are the work of bureaucrats who administer these same Executive
Orders imoosing penalties not contemplated either by the statutes or
the Constitution.
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N.Y. SCHOOL BOARD ACCREDIT NBC AIR UNIVERSITY
In a move of far-reaching significance in the fields of
education and radio broadcasting, the New York City Board of Super¬
intendents of the public schools system has approved as professional
improvement courses for teachers two programs presented by NBC' s
Inter-American University of the Air. The announcement was made by
Dr. James Rowland Angell, NBC public service counselor.
This action makes NBC’s Inter- American University of the
Air programs, "Lands of tne Free" and "Music of the New World",
vital parts of the official professional training program available
to the 35,000 teachers in New York City Public Schools. Heretofore,
the Board has accepted only courses offered by colleges or other
traditional educational institutions, or courses prepared by the
Board itself.
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: TRADE NOTES :
"Electronics Manpower Advisory Committee" has been organ¬
ized to prepare recommendations to the War Manpower Commission and
other Government agencies on manpower problems in electronics
industry.
Norman Corwin, writer, director and producer of Columbia
network’s "Transatlantic Call: People to People" turns the radio
spotlight upon the Nation’s Capital at war on next Sunday’s (Feb. 28)
broadcast from America to England, under the title "Washington,
D. C. " (WABC-CBS, 12:00 to 12:30 Noon).
W47NY, Muzak Radio Broadcasting Station, Inc., New York
City, has been granted a modification of construction permit by the
Federal Communications Commission, for new FM station to extend com¬
pletion d^te to web. 4, 1943; also granted license for FM broadcast
station to use 44,700 kc , with service area of 8500 sq. miles, sub¬
ject to condition that licensee will take steps to comoly fully with
the Rules and Regulations, and Standards of the Commission when
materials and personnel become available or when required by the
Commission to do so.
Emmet N. Madden, formerly connected with, the General Motors
Corporation, has joined the RC^ Victor Division of the Radio Corpo¬
ration of America as Manager of overseas subsidiary and affiliated
company operations, it has been announced by J. D. Cook, Managing
Director of RCA' s International Department. Mr. Madden will make
his headquarters at Camden, N.J. The appointment is in line with
RCA’s current post-war planning activities looking to the reopening
of world markets, Mr. Cook stated.
President Roosevelt is to speak over the Columbia Broad¬
casting System and three other major networks on Sunday Feb. 28 at
4:15 p.M. EWT. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Admiral Chester Nimitz
have accepted invitations to speak on the program with the President,
provided their duties do not interfere.
The Federal Communica tions Commission expects to get its
annual report out by March 1st. The deadline is March 15th.
A station-wide contest was held to name the transcriptions,
and the name "Veritone " was selected by the Judges as the most suit¬
able one to describe the method used by the WOR studios in the making
of their transcriptions for broadcasting. The prize winning name
was suggested by Dudley Ruby of the WOR Artist’ s Bureau.
W51C, Zenith Radio Corp. , Chicago, Ill., has been granted
an extension of time within which to submit field intensity measure¬
ments required by Sec. 3.229 of the Rules, by the FCC.
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2/26/43
Madame Chlang Kai-shek, First Lady of China, speaks over
the Columbia network when she addresses a mass meeting in her honor
at Madison Square Garden, New York City, Tuesday, March 2, 10 P.M.EWT.
With transmitter tubes high on the list of broadcast equip¬
ment no longer available, the three longevity records made by WOR
with Western Electric tubes during 1942 came at an opportune time.
The most recent of these lifetime accomplishments was set by a tube
installed in WOR* s 50,000 watt transmitter almost three years ago.
A few months ago - 19,557 hours later - this tube was finally retir¬
ed. It had been in service nearly 20 times its lifetime guarantee
of 1,000 hours, and closely aoproached the 20,691 hour span estab-
lisned by a similar W.E. tube in the same WOR transmitter on June 15.
The latter is a record for this type of tube. A third tube completed
the outstanding wartime stint of 18,386 hours during the year.
Miss Elinor Inman, formerly an assistant to Davidson ^aylor,
Assistant Director of Broadcasts, has been named Broadcast Director
of CBS Religious Programs.
Small alnico magnets, supplied by G-eneral Electric, enable
Array instructors to prepare panel code messages 200 times faster than
formerly and are speeding classroom training of flying cadets,
according to high- ranking officers of the Army Air Forces Advanced
Flying Scnool at Brooks Field, Texas.
Fernandez Aldana, former radio and newspaperman in Spain
and Mexico, has joined the CBS Shortwave Publicity Department, Edmund
Cnester, Director of Broadcasting to Foreign Countries has announced.
Suggestions which save 17,000 man-hours a year earned $710
in awards for Robert J. Spring of the General Electric Company at
Schenectady, a radio transmitter inspector whose father was once
cabinetmaker for the late Dr. C. P. Steinmetz. Mr. Spring devoted
his evenings for weeks to studying under his home microscope the
effect of acids on metals. He developed a burnishing process which
cut the finishing time of small tuning set disks from 2i minutes to
5 seconds per disk. A later suggestion enables an operator to finish
5000 tiny transmitter plates an hour instead of the previous rate of
one per minute.
In a reorganization of the CBS Shortwave News Department
effective February 15, Lawrence Haas, most recently Latin American
editor of the United Press, joined CBS in the newly created executive
position of CBS Shortwave News Director.
In cooperation with the Saturday Evening Post, NBC's Inter-
American University of the Air is presenting four noted speakers
during its "Lands of the Free" broadcasts to discuss the Four Freedoms
of the Atlantic Charter.
The first was Mrs. Roosevelt last Sunday on "freedom of
°peech”; Norman Rockwell on "Freedom of Worship" on ^eb. 28; Stephen
Vincent Benet "Freedom from Want" on March 7th and Archibald Mac-
Lei sh "Freedom from Fear", on March 7.
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Heinl Radio Business Letter
2400 CALIFORNIA STREET WASHINGTON, D. C.
INDEX TO ISSUE OF MARCH 2, 1943
Ban On Manufacture of Home Radio Tubes Lifted . ...1
Elmer Davis Not To Broadcast Spot News..
Say Only Radio Could Link All Our Fronts
New OWI Radio Chief Begins March 15 .
Honor Roll Of Radio War Reporters .
FCC Head Asked Many Questions At Press Conference . 5
Winchell Says He Has Attacked Few Congressmen . ...7
Weather Causes Ecuador Set Depreciation . 9
Trade Notes... . . . 10
Curtis Signs Long Term Contracts With N. Y. Stations . 11
Production Man's Invention Saves Three Hours A Day....,, . 11
No. 1508
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March 2,1943
BAN ON MANUFACTURE OF HOME RADIO TUBES LIFTED
Resumption of the manufacture of radio tubes for home
receivers has been ordered by the War Production Board. Frank H»
Mclntosn, Chief of Foreign and Domestic Broadcasting, said that
the firms cooperating in the project, which calls for 11,000,000
tubes by July 1, are: RCA, Harrison, N.J.; vania Electric Pro¬
ducts, Inc., Emporia, Pa.; Hytron Corp. , Salem, Mass.; National
Union Radio Corp., Newark, N. J. ; Raytheon Production Corp., Newton,
Mass. ; Ken- Rad Tube & Lamp Corp. , Owensboro, Ky. ; Tung- Sol Lamp
Works, Newark, N. J.
The factories, beginning production immediately, expect
to get into full stride by July on a goal of 45,000,000 tubes a
year.
Manufacture of home receiver tubes was stopped last year
to allow plants to fill the large demands of the armed services.
Efforts have been made since the manufacturing freeze order to
determine the number of tubes available, but it was said the Govern¬
ment was no more successful in getting an inventory than it was in
getting an inventory of the large broadcast tubes used in trans¬
mitting stations. The nearest thing it learned was that 87,700,000
tubes were manufactured last year for all purposes. Of this number
it was estimated that approximately 35,000,000 were for replacements.
The normal manufacture of home receiver tubes for a year, according
to Mr. McIntosh, is 135,000,000 tubes.
The number of tubes authorized to be manufactured, it is
figured, is sufficient to keep only one home receiver in each house¬
hold in operating condition. Just how this will be policed is being
studied by the Board at this time, but It is hoped that a form of
rationing can be prevented, and that there will be full cooperation
on the part of the public.
Furthermore, the resumption order does not provide for the
manufacture of all types of tubes which were on the market for home
receivers prior to the war. But the 114 essential types which have
been authorized, it was said, will take care of about 90 percent of
the home receivers. So-called '’luxury15 tubes, such as the miniatures
used in the small, camera-type sets and in the all-wave sets, will
not be included in the new authorization, it was said. Therefore,
tnese types of tubes will be ” out" for the duration.
The tubes now being manufactured will not bear a maker’s
name but will be of pre-war quality and meet the specifications of
the American Standards Association.
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3/2/43
ELMER DAVIS NOT TO BROADCAST SPOT NEWS
When Elmer Davis, Director of War Information, made it
known that he was going back on the air, he emphasized the fact
that he would follow these three rules:
1, The broadcasts will not carry news which has not already
been available to the press and radio.
2, The broadcasts will be factual and will attempt to sum¬
marize and clarify important war developments in order
to promote clear understanding of the nation1 s wartime
problems.
3, Every effort will be made to make each broadcast res¬
ponsive to the questions uppermost in the minds of the
publice
The series will begin Friday evening, March 12th, will
be fifteen minutes beginning at 10:45 P.M. , EWT, over NBC, CBS
and Blue. Mutual will out on the talk by transcription Saturdays
at 4 P.M.
Explaining why the former CBS ace commentator had decid¬
ed to- return to the microphone, an OWI press release said:
MMr. Davis stated that he receives many letters each week
from people who write that they want someone in the government to
sura up each week what is being done and why - and how it affects
each individual. Recently a group of important radio station
operators informed the Office of War Information that people in
their communities were eager to get a clarification of important
issues of the war such as Mr. Davis might make.”
X X X X X X X X
SAY ONLY RADIO COULD LINK ALL OUR FRONTS
In connection with the report last week that the gross
income of the Radio Corporation of America amounted to $197,024,056
in 1942, as compared to $158,695,722 in 1941, Sen. James G-. Harbord,
Chairman of the Board, and David Sarnoff, President, said in a
Joint report to stockholders that while most of the uses of radio
in wartime are military secrets, the importance of radio is emphas¬
ized by the fact that the armed forces of the United States are
stationed at more than sixty places on the international battle-
fronts. Only by radio can all these outposts be coordinated quickly
in communication. In addition, radio has the global assignment of
maintaining contact with the battle forces of the Navy on the high
seas. Radio travels with the convoy carrying supplies, and with
the airplane in combat, as well as in land transport and recon¬
naissance.
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The report continues:
"The war calls for everything radio can muster to outwit
and outspeed the enemy. Only by superior equipment, scientifically
efficient, mechanically rugged and built to operate under all con¬
ditions of weather on land, on sea and in the air, can radio fulfill
its great responsibilities to the fighting forces. Only when victory
is won, and the full story of radio’ s vital part in the war is re¬
leased, will the world learn how American ingenuity in radio
electronics was a powerful factor in overcoming the enemy on the
land, in the skies and on the oceans.
"The airplane and fast-moving mechanized units have
greatly multiplied the demands upon radio, for it is the only means
of communication which can keep pace with them no matter how fast,
or where they go. When the enemy is out-radioed, it may be as
decisive as if he were outmanoeuvred and out- fought.
"Substantially all RCA facilities and manpower in research,
engineering, manufacturing, communications and administrative work,
have been devoted entirely to the war effort. Under the impetus of
war, new inventions and wartime adaptations of older radio-electron¬
ic apparatus are being rushed into service. New devices, which in
peacetime might require years to find their way into practical use¬
fulness, are harnessed in wartime within a short span of months. "
The report contains much evidence that radio research
and engineering no longer are confined solely to communications.
The radio tube has become a master key in opening new fields for
scientific exploration. As the heart of the science of electronics,
the radio tube is expanding the services of radio and the usefulness
of its products in science, industry and the arts.
Radlothermics is one of the new fields which reveals
great promise, according to the report. Application of radio¬
frequency heating to speed and improve industrial processes, reduce
costs and produce better products, is rapidly coming to the fore.
Radio broadcasting is referred to in the report as "the
voice of the nation at war". It is affording the Grovemment and
the armed services a direct and simultaneous aontact with the people
and witn other nations, which was not available during the first
World War. It rallies the Nation, releases vital information, aids
civilian morale and unites the American people in the single pur¬
pose of winning the war.
During 1942, new direct radio circuits were established
by R. C. A. Communications between the United States and Iran, New
Zealand, Bermuda., New Caledonia, and Kunming, China. Additionally,
direct service with Iceland was resumed after a suspension of more
than a year.
In addition to the radiophoto circuits in operation be¬
tween New York and London, Buenos Aires and Moscow, RCA in 1942
opened new radiophoto circuits between the United States and
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3/2/43
Melbourne, Australia; Cairo, Egypt; and from Hawaii, A large num¬
ber of photographs from war sectors Is being handled over these cir¬
cuits, the volume in 1942 being nearly thirty percent greater than
in 1941,
Throughout 1942 the Radiomarine Corporation of America
devoted its entire facilities to the design, development and pro¬
duction of radio war-equipment for use at sea. Large quantities
of all types of marine radio instruments were produced for the armed
forces. For the Liberty ship program a compact radio unit was
designed, capable of being installed within a few hours. It com¬
prised a complete radio-telegraph station, including automatic
alarms. Lifeboat transmitters and receivers also were produced.
During 1942 RCA Institutes had the largest registration
of students in its history, with its radio courses devoted to trains
ing of enlisted personnel as well as civilians studying to become
operators and technicians.
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NEW OWI RADIO CHIEF BEGINS MARCH 15
Donald D. Stauffer, new OWI Radio Bureau head, will take
over March 15th. Mr. Stauffer succeeds William B. Lewis, former
CBS Vice-President, recently boosted upstairs to be Associate
Director of OWI.
Mr. Stauffer has made quite a reputation for himself.
Entering radio in March, 1931, with BBDO, he was in charge of the
"March of Time" series. He joined Young & Rubicam in March, 1933,
where he became a Vice-President in charge of radio operations.
In March, 1939, he joined A & S. Lyons, New York talent agency, as
a partner, remaining until he joined Ruthrauff & Ryan in May, 1942,
where he is now Vice-President in Charge of Radio.
XXXXXXXXX
HONOR ROLL OF RADIO WAR REPORTERS
Mutual's overseas correspondent Frank J. Cuhel, who was
not rescued from the ill-fated Yankee Clipper that crashed and ex¬
ploded February 22, brings to seven the number of radio war corres¬
pondents who have been either killed, captured or are missing
since Pearl Harbor.
The roll o:f honor of radio newsmen who have been casualties
from the various networks as compiled by Lester Gottlieb of WOR
follows :
Killed: Don Bell (NBC); Ed Beaudry (CBS)
Captured: Bert Silen (NBC; Ed Ward, Eric Davis (CBS); Royal
Arch Gunnison (MBS)
Missing: Frank J. Cuhel (MBS)
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FCC HEAD ASKED MANY QUESTIONS AT PRESS CONFERENCE
^uite a few questions were asked of Chairman James L. Fly
of the Federal Communications Commission at his regular weekly
press conference yesterday (Monday). They were;
Q. Mr. Chairman, I am wondering if there is anything new or news-
worthy in the Commission's investigation of personnel of foreign
language stations.
Chairman Fly; I don't think we are planning to do anything spectac¬
ular; Just do an orderly and persistent job there,
Q. Is there any change in your methods of investigating?
Mr. Fly: No, none that I know of.
Q. What's been the general experience of these things? Just how
many doubtful cases in these foreign language stations - when
I say doubtful I mean as to loyalty- ?
A. That's a rather serious question you are asking. I don't think
that's the sort of thing we ought to kick around and make any
public noise about. We are Investigating the operation of the
stations from the standpoint of national security, and we are
not out to do a Job on any station nor to question the loyalty
of any Individuals. I really, think it requires an orderly Job
and the less noise we make about it the better.
Q,. Let me put it this way - I understand there is a hearing to be
held in the case of one station - would It be true that there is
nothing to warrant the ordering of a hearing?
A. Well, you Just have to form your own Judgment on that. I don't
think you can fit it into an arbitrary pigeonhole; the facts
will vary from station to station and from case to case. In
most cases there is no reason to question the conduct of the
stations, and in others there may be, etc., with the various
gradations. Unfortuna tely , they cannot be put in ready-made
pigeonholes.
Q. Have you any round figures on these leased wire reductions?
A. I have some guesses here. ^or example, on the telegraph company
leased wires, the users will save another million dollars, and
by the way, as heretofore In connection with the telephone rate
reductions, a substantial portion of that benefit will go to
the press. As I recall, the press got something like one and
one-halfmillion from the reductions of the A. T. & T. rates,
and I guess they will get a very substantial portion of this
million dollars of the reductions in telegraph leased wire ser¬
vices. I might say that It was not an accident that these re¬
ductions have been made. We have long since come to the con¬
clusion that the press services are a very essential wartime
service. There is a great national public Interest in the
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free and easy flow of Information and publication and distribu¬
tion of that information by the papers and the press services,
so we have done what we could under the circumstances to make
that a. more economic opera tion. I hope it helps.
Q. Speaking of the press, what’s the status of the newsoaper- owned
broadcast stations hearing? Die you ever make a report on that?
I haven’t followed it up*
A. That was not completed. As a matter of fact, it’s not a very
pressing question at this time In view of the fact that there
can’t be any construction anyway.
Q. Are the applications still being help up?
A. Most of the applications are controlled by the rules forbidding
construction, so most of them have been dismissed without pre¬
judice along with the hundreds of other applications for new
facilities. In other words, the question tends to be a bit
academic right now.
By the way, we decided not to decide the X and RX messages
case the other day. That’s the Telegraph Order No. 12, having
to do with the X and RX messages, which are used largely by
the various commodity exchanges, produce exchange, sugar ex»
change, cotton exchange, cotton shipper excnange, and grain
exchange, etc. The Commission was not entirely satisfied with
the status of the problem, as perhaps may have been indicated
somewhat at the argument, but we didn’t think this was a good
time to rock the boat, so we deferred considers tion of the
matter until January 1, 1944.
Q. Have you made any attempt to tie in the small stations, which we
have been discussing at various times, with this rather exten¬
sive food advertising campaign, which is being projected by the
OWI, the one dealing with consumer education.
A. I don’t Know. I think it’s conceivable that something may be
worked out, but I wouldn’t know.
Q. I s there anything from the Board of far Communications that can
be released?
A. We mentioned the telegraoh priorities at one time, didn’t we?
It may be that the press may have some interest in the priority
they can get under one of them when the message has to do with
some essential war purpose or the news relates to the public
safety. Off hand, I don't Know of any. There may be something
that we can talk about, but I don't have it before me.
Q. Is there anything further on the financial status of small sta¬
tions? Are those reports complete?
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A. Yes, I think there is something a little further. We are making
some progress. Nothing specific nor concrete, however* I don’t
think we will have anything definite on that whole picture until
we get those reports in that I told you about last week. Per¬
haps during this month of March, though
Q. Have you been getting many more requests for suspension of
licenses, or fold-ups?
A. I think a couple have come in. One man came to see me the other
day about how to fold up without getting too badly snarled up,
I don't know how many have come in, but I know that that one
came in here a few days ago.
Q,. If they are getting ready to &ol4up, they couldn’t afford a
very long train trip?
"Tnis one happens not to be very far away", Mr. Fly concluded,
X X X X X X X
WINCHELL SAYS HE HAS ATTACKED FEW CONGRESSMEN
Replying to charges made by Representative Clare Hoffman,
of Michigan, and others, Walter Winchell in a recent Blue Net broad¬
cast said:
"Your reporter would like to straighten out a few misre¬
presentations. I have criticized and attacked about a half a dozen
legislators who then use congressional immunity to charge that I
have smeared the entire Congress. Ladies, and gentlemen - I have
attacked those who defend convicted seditionists. I have attacked
those who have smeared our Commander-in-chief. I have attacked
those who voted against defense measures, and I have attacked those
who have thrown mud at our Allies.
"I consider those attacks and criticisms a part of my duty
as a citizen and a newspaperman, I have praised many, many more
Congressmen than I haven't, and I have never stopped defending the
Congress as an institution. There are 531 Congressmen. I have
criticized about 6, Anyone who thinks that that represents a smear
of Congress as a whole, has no idea of fair play or arithmetic*"
Representative Hoffman inserted an article in the Congre ss-
lonal Record last week written by Westbrook Pegler about Mr,
Wincnell, saying: "Mr. Pegler, known for his accuracy and truth¬
fulness, expresses an opinion of an unreliable gossip-peddling
Wnite House spokesman," The Pegler article follows:
"There is something mysterious and sinister in the case of
Walter Wincnell, a notorious professional scandalmonger, who holds a
reserve commission as a lieutenant commander in the Navy but has now
been placed on the inactive list and set on the beach, so to speak,
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3/2/43
but apparently only under pressure from the Naval Affairs Committee
of the House of Representatives. This man seems not to have the
slightest appreciation of the distinction between gossip and inform¬
ation. This makes him a dangerous man in the role of informant or
investigator for naval intelligence or any other similar service.
'’Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox told the Naval Affairs
Committee that he had no intention to call Winchell t>ack to active
duty. That would put a satisfactory end to an episode which has
been detrimental to the prestige of the officers' stripes in the
Navy if Knox’s promise had not been followed by mysterious insinu¬
ations from Winchell himself, that he will continue to function in
his own peculiar way. Tnis would seem to mean that he will be send¬
ing reports on individuals, a considerable proportion of them un¬
founded, to naval intelligence and to the Federal Bureau of Investi¬
gation, with whcih he has been more or less intimate by way of a per¬
sonal friendship with J. Edgar Hoover.
’’Editors and reputable writers have a feeling that to dis¬
cuss Winchell is to advertise him and inflate a vanity which often
has expressed itself in overflowing tributes to himself. The news¬
paper business has been responsible for him and the degradation of
Journalistic ethics which has occurred in his time, for he has been
used widely in papers which would not think of permitting any local
reporter to publish comparable Intimacies about local people and
which would fire any local reporter wno had a similar record.
"But he becomes news and is no more to be ignored than any
other unpleasant topic when it appears that, notwithstanding his
relegation to the inactive list, he will continue to investigate
what he calls the 'undercover menace' and, presumably, to pass on
tips to the Navy. For this suggests that the real operatives, or
detectives of thelntelligence Service, will be set to snooping into
the lives of innocent victims.
"Mr. Knox's position in this case is not clear. As an
editor and publisher he has expressed a low professional opinion of
Winchell' s trustworthiness as a reporter and of his ethics. Knox
has said that ne would not have him on his paper, the Chicago Daily
News, but nevertheless, he has used Winchell for official, noncom¬
batant duties, the nature of which has not been disclosed but which,
from Winchell' s own remarks, would appear to have consisted of con¬
fidential investigation. Inasmuch as he would not trust this man's
word about Individuals in print it is inconsistent that he trust him
as an informant or investigator for the Navy, if Winchell is telling
the truth about his Navy duties.
"it is not speculation to observe that Winchell, since he
took up patrioteering, has become an outlet for propaganda against
opponents of the New Deal -^arty, which officials of the Government
would prefer not to utter themselves.
"Harold Ross, editor of the New Yorker magazine, demon¬
strated disqualification of Winchell for any rank in any armed ser¬
vice in a series of articles which cited chapter and verse and rated
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him mathematically. Within 1 year there appeared in print and were
heard on the air three separate insinuations that Mr. and Mrs. Ross
were having domestic trouble s, all of them lies by a man whom the
Navy, nevertheless, for some reason, has willingly or perforce,
employed on mysterious duties with the rank of lieutenant commander,
,!Mr. and Mrs. Ross are still happily married and have
never been separated,
’’This essay is no part of any feud, unless it can be said
that a broom has a feud wltn dirt, f!
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WEATHER CAUSES ECUADOR SET DEPRECIATION
Radio receiving sets imported by Ecuador between January 1,
1938, and October 1, 1942, totaled 16,469. In addition, a small
number of sets were assembled locally from imported parts and mater¬
ials. Radios depreciate rapidly In Ecuador, especially in the
coastal regions, and the total number of sets now in operating con¬
dition is probably about 16,000.
It is estimated that approximately 12,750 of the sets
are combined long- and short-wave, and approximately 3,250 are
limited to long-wave reception. Until a relatively snort time ago,
the number of first-class long-wave broadcasting stations in Ecuador
was very small, and the few in operation did not retransmit foreign
programs for local audiences. This reduced public interest in
long- wave sets.
The average number of listeners per radio set is believed
to be at least six in the cities and probably more in rural dis¬
tricts. Many neighborhood grocery stores and saloons in the cities
provide radio entertainment for their customers. In several small
towns, the municipal councils have installed radios for the benefit
of tne townspeople and these probably are heard by a thousand lis¬
teners at a time,
Ecuador’s imports of radio receiving sets, by years, since
1937 were as follows: 1938, 1,390; 1939, 3,612; 1940, 4,705; 1941,
4,461; and in the first 9 months of 1942, 2,301,
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The National Broadcasting Company has allocated desk space
on the main floor of its Radio City headquarters, for three govern¬
ment agencies - the U. S. Civil Service Commission, the Women’s
Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) and the American' Women f s Voluntary
Services (AWVS),
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TRADE NOTES
K. Ca DeWalt and A. C. Gable have been named designing,
engineer and administrative assistant* respectively, in the Tube
Division of the General Electric Electronics Department, at Schen¬
ectady, N.Y. Mr. DeWalt, born in Vinton, Iowa, upon graduation
from the University of Iowa, entered the General Electric Company.
Mr. Gable was born in Macon, Ga. a.nd after graduation from Georgia
School of Technology also went direct to the General Electric Co.
Leon Levine, CBS Assistant Director of Education, goes to
Toronto, Canada, March 10 at the invitation of officials of the
Canadian Broadcasting Corp. for a series of conferences on "School
of the Air of the Americas'6 programs to be carried by Canada In 1943.
"Chimes", a new house-organ for NBC*s New York employees,
made its appearance last week. Subsequent issues will appear on
the 15th of each month,
WPTZ, philco Radio & Television Coro., Philadelphia, Pa., license
to cover construction permit as modified which authorized new com¬
mercial television broadcast station, in part, has been applied for
to the FCC. Also W3XPA, (Portable-Mobile, area of Philadelphia , Pa .
license to cover construction permit for new Television Relay Broad¬
cast Station to be used with WPTZ, and W3XPC, license to cover con¬
struction permit for new Television Relay broadcast station to be
used with WPTZ.
Since early in November, when the first women were added
to NBC! s Guest Relations staff to replace young men who were enter¬
ing the armed services at a rapidly increasing rate, the personnel
snift has continued until almost 25$ of the staff are now women.
Because of the success of the wartime venture, it is probable that
the proportion will continue to increase.
The revised edition of CBS5 s recommended pronunciation
of tongue- twisting war words has just come off the press. The book
is to be presented to all CBS announcers in New York and a copy sent
to the Network5 8 affiliate stations including those in Canada as
well as to the BBC. Tne book is prepared by W. Cabell Greet, CBS
speech consultant and Associate Professor at Barnard College,
Columbia University.
Volume 2 in NBC5 s comprehensive report on the results of
its all-county survey of radio listeners was released this past
week. Like Vol. 1 on night-time listening, which was published
Just before the new year, the second report carries the title !,A
Tale of 412 Cities*, but its facts and figures pertain to the day¬
time preferences of listeners.
At his press conferences Chairman James L. Fly of the
Federal Communications Commission, frequently turns the tables on_
his Interviewers with the question: "TOiat's the news, gentlemen?"
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CURTIS SIGNS LONG TERM CONTRACTS WITH N.Y. STATIONS
The Curtis Publishing Comoany, for many years a frequent
advertiser in magazines and newspapers, has signed its first long
term contract with Columbia5 s key metropolitan station, WABC. Also
Curtis has signed a year's contract with WEA^ for participation
spots on three daily programs.
The first extensive use of New York stations by the Curtis
Company was during the recent newspaper strike in New York. At
that time, the client bought numerous news shows daily and partici¬
pated in other programs.
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PRODUCTION MAN 1 S INVENTION SAVES THREE HOURS A DAY
Arthur Whiteside, WOR Production Manager, used to spend
three hours a day making up the production schedule for the follow¬
ing day's broadcasting operations. This schedule would list the
names of the announcers and producers, the name of the show, the
rehearsal time, actual time of broadcast, and whether or not the
program was on the Mutual network.
But that 5 8 all changed now. For the past six months,
Arthur has been devoting all his spare time, and evenings as well,
to the building of a time-saving gadget. The operation was con¬
ducted in secrecy, and no one was allowed to see the invention until
it was completed. But now after drilling 29,750 holes in 7 wooden
boards, india-inking each one of the boards to make thousands of
squares, and making 2100 pegs out of 1/8 dowels to fit in the holes,
the unveiling has taken place and the world can benefit by Arthur's
Inge nuity.
The seven boards represent the seven days of the week.
The top of the boards contain the names of all W0Rfs producers,
directors and announcers, and the hours of the day run down the
sides of the boards. The pegs are of different colors: Red for
rehearsal, Yellow for produce or direct, Blue for announce, White
for spot announcements, and Green for network shows. Get it?
Now a simple maneuvering of pegs tells the production
story at a glance.
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INDEX TO ISSUE OF MARCH 5, 1943
Senators Again Move To Revise Communications Act . 1
Winchell Is Again Congressional Target . 3
Subcontractors Sought For Military Radio Condensers . 4
Victory Parts Expected To Restore Civilian Sets . 5
Supreme Court Net Ruling May Come Anytime Now.
Senate Committee Marking Time In Petrillo Case
Winchell Broadcasts Starts Row Over FDR, Jr . 7
Mackay Opens Its Direct Radio Circuit To Africa . 8
Woods Says U. S. Business War Coooeration Unsurpassed . 9
Trade Notes . . . 10
FTC Moves Against Old Cold . .11
Educator Says Radio Replaces Old Copybook . 11
No. 1509
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SENATORS AGAIN MOVE TO REVISE COMMUNICATIONS ACT
On behalf of Senator Wheeler (D), of Montana., and himself,
Senator White (R), of Maine, reintroduced a bill ( s. 814) to amend
the Communications Act. Senator White explained that it had its
source in S. 1868, a bill introduced by Senator Wheeler in a previous
Congress; in S. 1806 and S. 1520, introduced in previous sessions by
himself; in recommendations made to the Federal Communications Bar
Association by a committee thereof; in court decisions; and in recom¬
mendations found in the Report of the Attorney General’s Committee on
Administrative Procedure.
Senator White said:
"This measure should not be regarded as a general revision
of our Communications Act of 1934, but the changes in the organiza¬
tion of the Federal Communications Commission, in its procedure, in
the sections of present law with respect to appeals to the courts, in
the efforts made to assure equality of right and ooportunlty among
those who utilize radio for public discussion, in the attempt to
further provide against censorship and in the authorization of declar¬
atory Judgments, make this bill of supreme importance and justify
its study and approval in substantially its present form by the pre¬
sent Congress. "
There followed a lengthy explanation of the bill which
covered 2% pages of the Congressional Record of March 2nd. The
second and third sections of the bill basically change the admin¬
istrative set-up and functions of the Commission. They can be sum¬
marized as the separation of the Commission of seven members into
two statutory divisions of three members each and a clarification of
the status and functions of the Chairman of the Commission.
Under this plan the whole Commission would have power and
authority to adopt and promulgate any rule or regulation of general
application required or authorized by the act, including procedural
rules and regulations for the Commission and each division. The
wnole Commission would have plenary authority over amateur services,
emergency services, the qualification and licensing of operators,
the selection and control of personnel, the assignment of bands of
frequencies to the various radio services and many other subjects
and services as at present. But the present Judicial and quasi-
judicial functions of the Commission would be vested in the proposed
divisions insofar as those functions relate to the most important
and controversial subjects within the present Jurisdiction of the
Commission,
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Jurisdiction to hear and determine all cases arising
under the act or regulations, relating to broadcast, television,
facsimile, and kindred communications intended for public reception
is vested in the Division of Public Communications. Similar juris¬
diction with respect to common carriers and communications intended
for a designated addressee is vested in the Division of Private Com¬
munications, This plan not only recognizes the basic and funda¬
mental differences between the two types of communications involved
and the nature of the questions presented by each, but it also pro¬
vides a method for obtaining proper consideration of those cases
by persons wno will be able to devote their time and attention to
the questions committed to them without undue interruption or inter¬
ference occasioned by the demands of basically different problems.
Under the plan proposed, the status of the Chairman would
be that of an executive officer and coordinator participating fully
in all matters within the Jurisdiction of the Commission except the
determination and decision of contested matters which are made the
exclusive business of the divisions* Experience has amply demon¬
strated that the Chairman cannot be expected to devote the time and
attention necessary to the proper handling and disposition of these
matters and also efficiently to discharge the many other duties which
are unavoidably his under the act. As to these other duties, an
attempt has also been made to clarify the status of the Chairman and
to make him, and him only, the official spokesman and representative
of the Commission in certain important respects.
X X X X X X X
WINCHELL IS AGAIN CONGRESSIONAL TARGET
Once more the name of Walter Winchell bobbed up in Con¬
gressional debate. Once more he was attacked by his old enemy,
Representa tive Clare Hoffman ( R) , of Michigan, and once more was
the radio commentator vigorously defended by Administration Con¬
gressmen - this time Representatives McGranery (D), of Philadelphia,
and Warren G. Magnuson (D), of Washington. Mr. Winchell' a name was
injected into a heated debate the House was having over the Supreme
Court decision exonerating George Sylvester Vierick, the alleged
Nazi propagandist.
"Now that my good friend the gentleman from Michigan (Mr.
Hoffman) has closed his argument, I am wondering my my mind what he
said, and what he has been talking about", Representative McGranery
declared. "He started off by telling us that every man, the most
humble man, is entitled to a fair trial In any court under our laws,
and then he winds up, 'Kick Winchell out, kick Winchell out*. After
all, let him do something, choose one or the other and as between
Viereck and Winchell, give me a hundred thousand Winchells. "
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Following the introduction of Mr, Winchell Ss complete
record as a Naval Reserve Officer (covering 2-jjr columns of agate
type in the Congressional Record of March 2), Representative Ma gnu son
told Representative Hoffman if there was anything in Winchellss
record for which he deserved dismissal he was sure the Navy Depart¬
ment would be glad to entertain the charge.
"All right", Mr. Hoffman retorted. "While he was in the
Navy on active duty he said that fHitler is losing on the ground in
Russia, in the air over Germany, and on the sands of Africa. He
seems to win only in Congress. f
"There is a law on the statute books which provides that
if a man in the Army made that kind of a statement he would be
fired; he would be court-martialed. The Navy does not happen to
have that one, but it has others. "
"What has he got on Knox? What has he got on somebody
high in the administration? Why are they keeping that rattlesnake
there? What is he doing for the commander in chief of the Navy that
he continues in the service? Does the stink he creates cover up
something worse; is that it?"
Mr. Magnuson said Mr. Winchell die not war a uniform when
he broadcast, to which Hoffman replied?
"I have a picture and I will show it to you, where he
stands up there writing f Oceans of love9 to this actress that he
was signing for. He had a Navy uniform on."
Mr. Magnuson. "That is not the broadcast the gentleman
speaks about. As I understand, he made a broadcast whole on Navy
relief, "
Mr. Hoffman. "Is It right for an officer in uniform to run
around to night clubs and that kind of places? Does the gentleman
know of any decent, respectable Navy man who wants him in there now?"
Mr. Magnuson. "He is on Inactive duty no w. "
Mr, Hoffman. "Does the gentleman know of any decent, res¬
pectable Navy man who wants him in the Navy now. Oh, you do not?
You ask any man In uniform. "
Representative Hoffman continued?
"Here I quote a paragraph from the record of Winchell,
the lieutenant commander, the fighting lieutenant commander?
9,,June 27, 1941; Winchell letter to BuNav, via Com3,
requesting deferred status as he believes he can best serve inter¬
ests of Navy by remaining in an inactive status. 9
*Tn the Navy - In uniform - but asking on June 27, 1941,
to be deferred - never yet, so far as we know has he smelled powder,
unless it was from the oowder puff of a scented lady."
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“I should, think Knox would not want him. If I under¬
stand the press reports right, and if they are accurate, Knox said
that he would not have him as a reporter because he could not rely
on his word, but he leaves him in the Navy to put out broadcasts
throughout the country on Sunday nights.
,,pPo show you Just how low. Just how dirty, Just how nasty
this man is, who, shall we say, takes refuge under the White House
porch or under the coat-tails of Knox, to show you what he will do,
to show you what he is, let me read from Winchell's column on Febru¬
ary 3, 1934. Listen to this. He is speaking of Joan of Arc:
" 5 The fact is, according to an authority of Joan, too
much sex appeal forced her to discard her dresses for male apparel,
and too much sex appeal forced her to fasten them down with plenty
of buttons. ?
1?Now, I ask you, in view of the fact he wrote that about
one whom many of us regard as a saint, and that he still is a
Reserve officer in the Navy, is there anything so low, is there any¬
thing so dirty that someone in this administration will not tolerate
it? Why do they not get him out of the Reserves?
”1 have no criticism of Winchell as a columnist, as a radio
announcer; I mean here from the floor I have not. Let him say what
ne will, but get out of the Navy, get out of the United States ser¬
vice. Then if he wants to go on, let him go on on his own respons¬
ibility, paid by the Jergens Co. for his nasty, dirty work. }S
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SUBCONTRACTORS SOUGHT FOR MILITARY RADIO CONDENSERS
Producers of variable condensers used in military radio are
seeking sub-contractors who possess cylindrical grinding and worm
grinding machine tools and close tolerance screw machines, the War
Production Board reoorts.
This was brought out at a recent meeting of the Industrial
Advisory Committee on variable condensers conducted by Elmer Crane,
Chief of the Comoonents Section, Radio Division, WP3. The Regional
Field Section of the Division was requested to search for concerns
qualified to handle sub-contracts.
The manufacturers urged that more definite determination
be made of the requirements of the Services for variable condensers.
It was contended that olant schedules are unset repeatedly by spor¬
adic floods of urgent orders.
The industry will request that variable condenser specifi¬
cations be changed from the present requirement for silver plating
to cadmium plating. Under the salt spray tests of the Armed Services,
it was contended, silver turns to silver chloride, whereas cadmium
plating remains Intact. It will be request that cadmium plate be
made standard.
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VICTORY PARTS EXPECTED TO RESTORE CIVILIAN SETS
Owners of radios* regardless of their make and vintage,
will be able to keep their sets in reoair when the Victory Line of
replacement parts goes into production, Frank H. McIntosh, Assistant
Director of the Radio Division of the War Production Board, in charge
of foreign and domestic radio said Wednesday. Manufacturers have
started to schedule production.
The Victory Line substitutes a few types of each receiving
set component for the great number produced in peace time. For
example, 350 types of electrolytic condenser were reduced to nine.
In addition to such condensers, the Victory Line includes fixed
paper-dielectric condensers, volume controls, power and audio trans¬
formers and chokes.
Mr. McIntosh pointed out that the smaller number of replace¬
ment parts will greatly step up production. Dealers will experience
an even turnover of their entire stock. The great multiplicity of
designs in the past forced them to hold inventories of many slow
line s.
Mr. McIntosh also said the possibility of resumption of
production of radio tubes, virtually suspended last June, had been
discussed at a recent meeting with manufacturers. With production
for civilian use at a minimum, replacement tubes are now supplied to
owners of home sets from existing stocks.
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prooosed for production would be adequate substitutes for the others,
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from production and without substitutes.
At the same time the above statement of Mr. McIntosh was
given out in Washington, it was made known, according to the New York
Times that the American Standards’ Association had Just completed the
first of a series of standards for '•war model” replacement parts
designed to keep home radio sets operating in spite of wartime short¬
ages.
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for civilian radio composed of independent experts in the radio
industry , Dr. 0. H. Caldwell, editor of Radio Today, is Chairman
and Jonn Borst, Chief Engineer of the John F. Rider organization,
Vice Chairman, reconciles the ofttimes diverging viewpoints of the
various branches of the radio industry, while defining a severely
limited line of replacement parts.
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ent types of each item available in the pre-Pearl Harbor period. The
A.S.A, list shows but nine paper condensers, nine electrolytic con¬
densers, eleven values of volume controls, six newer transformers,
two chokes, two interstage audio transformers, one driver audio
transformer and three output audio transformers.
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The performance and design standards for condensers pro¬
vide for tubular cardboard-encased units using a minimum of stra¬
tegic materials. The required minimum performance characteristics
have been chosen to be satisfactory from an electrical and service
life standpoint so that there will be no need, it is hoped, for re¬
placing the parts.
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a special symbol consisting of a "V" with the Morse code three dots
and a dash enclosed in a circle to appear on all parts made in accord¬
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that responsibility for the quality of unbranded and private brand
parts can be definitely ascribed to the original manufacturer,
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SUPREME COURT NET RULING MY COME ANYTIME NOW
The Supreme Court decision in the litigation over the
Federal Communications Commission’s chain-monopoly regulation may
come as early as next Monday (March 8) in the opinion of some ob¬
servers. If not then, very possibly in the weeks Immediately fol¬
lowing. That it may be as early as Monday is based on the fact that
one of the cases reported on last Monday was argued just ahead of
the radio case. On the other hand, it was said it might take the
court longer if there are lengthy dissenting opinions to write as
might be true in the monopoly case.
The fact that the Supreme Court is up with its work is
another factor in the possibility of an early decision in the mon¬
opoly case. There was a time when the Court was way behind in its
scnedule but since the days of Chief Justice Hughes, things have
been moving along much faster witn the result that there are rel¬
atively few cases now pending.
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SENATE COMMITTEE MARKING TIME IN PETRILLO CASE
Senator Clark (D), of Idaho, Chairman of the Interstate
Commerce sub-committee on the Petrillo matter said that his Committee
was simoly marking time awaiting to hear further from Mr. Petrillo0
The Senator said that Petrillo had called a meeting of the Music
Federation Executive Committee in Chicago for March 16th and he was
hopeful something might come out of that,
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With regard to tne situation, Variety had the following
story :
'’Quarters close to the Executive Board of the American
Federation of Musicians declared last Tuesday that the outlook for
a settlement of the recording controversy is not as dark as it is
generally thought within the allied music industries. These quar¬
ters make the observation that the union and the recorders are going
through the process of Jockeying for tactical position, and from
the same source comes the prediction that a second proposal from the
union will follow the Executive Board’s meeting in Chicago, March 16.
"The second proposal, it is predicted, will be far more
workable and compliant with the strictures of the law than the one
which was rejected by the recorders last week. AM leaders are des¬
cribed as being in a mood for disposing of the ’canned music1 problem
with a modicum of victory, at least for the duration. "^hey feel
that the union has scored a success of huge implications in that the
U.S. Supreme Court has confirmed its right to stop its members from
participating in an industry where technological progress threatens
progressive unemployment, and that if the recorders are amenable
to granting a reasonable amount of concessions, the controversy can
be quickly settled. James C. Petrillo, AFM president , would have
scored on both the legal and the employer fronts and he could then
make the gesture of backing down considerably from his original
demands because of patriotic motives.
"it is reported that a member of the Federation’s execu¬
tive board is the author of the substitute settlement plan and the
only way that the impasse could be prolonged for several more months
would be for outside interests to prevail upon the recording Industry
to hold out for the status quo and thereby lend weight to the anti¬
labor sentiment that is being churned uo by the press and within
Congress. "
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WINCHELL BROADCAST STARTS ROW OVER FDR, JR.
Walter Winchell was catapulted into Congressional debate a
second time this week when Representative Lambert son { R) , of Kansas,
charged that while Mr. Winchell was praising ^ranklin D. Roosevelt , Jr.
supposedly on the battlefield, that the latter was actually hitting
the high spots in New York.
Said Mr. Lambertson:
"Walter Winchell over the radio last Sunday night dwelt
on the magnificent soldiery of Franklin, Jr. , in Africa, intim&ting
that he had been there from the beginning except for a few days,
when the facts are that he landed by plane here the 3d of December
and stayed till sometime in January, going hack in time to be photo¬
graphed with his father.
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3/5/43
"While Walter waa talking Sunday night, Franklin, Jr.,
and his du Pont wife were doing the night clubs of New York, I
quote from Dorothy Kilgallen’s column of Saturday, February 27:
”’Lt. franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. and his wife, the hand¬
somest couole at Armado’s,’
"Louis Sobol, in the New York Journal-Anierlcan of February
20 says:
"’Navy Lt. F, D. Roosevelt, Jr. is back in town. "A few
more trips”, he observed, "and I’ll catch up with mom and pop in
mileage.
"When Rommel startes west, so did Franklin, Jr., again.
Yet the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. McCormack) and the bril¬
liant young knight from Tennessee (Mr. 'Core) will probably insist
that the Roosevelt boys have no preferential treatment. "
"Can the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Hoffman) tell me
wny Lieutenant Colonel Elliott Roosevelt was the only man who was
decorated in recognition of that particular exploit? (the African
trip) Not even the pilot of tne plane was decorated; yet they say
there is no preferential treatment. Why was it that for 6 months
the marines stayed in Guadalcanal , but Jimmy Roosevelt only stayed
6 da.ys or thereabout? Did General Vandegrift send him home because
he had too many men? Can the gentleman answer those questions?
Whose other mother’s sons could fare so well?"
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MACKAY OPENS ITS DIRECT RADIO CIRCUIT TO AFRICA
Having recently been granted a license by the Federal Com¬
munications Commission, the opening of a new radiotelegraph circuit
between the United States and Algiers, North Africa - the first and
only direct circuit of its kind - was announced Tuesday by Admiral
Luke McNamee, President of Macks y Radio and Telegraph Company, an
affiliate of International Telenhone and Telegraph Corporation. This
is the sixteenth additional international ra diotelegraph circuit to
be opened by Mackay Radio since the United States entered the war.
All classes of commercial telegraph messages will be handl
ed, Including personal messages and cress messages. Expeditionary
Force Messages - the special-rate radiogram service to men in our
armed forces overseas will be available as soon as authorized by the
Algerian authorities.
Messages between the United States and Algiers heretofore
have been routed via Europe. This direct circuit between Mackay
Radio’s New York station and the Algerian Government station will
speed up the handling of important messages by eliminating the neces
sity of utilizing alternate routes.
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WOODS SAYS U.S. BUSINESS WAR COOPERATION UNSURPASSED
Radio programs devoted exclusively to the war effort, and
presented in cooperation with various agencies of the Amy, Navy and
other governmental agencies over the BLUE network from January 1 this
year through February 15 totalled more than 270 network hours, a com¬
prehensive survey shows.
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dent of the BLUE Net work, pointed out that American business organi¬
zations, through the sponsorship of broadcasts carrying war effort
messages, are cooperating with the Government In a manner never
before attempted,
"Results of tnis survey, while impressive, present only a
part of the picture", Mr. Woods said. The BLUE is only one of the
four major networks, and in addition there are hundreds of small sta¬
tions not affiliated with any network. All of these networks, and
all of these stations, are doing an equally timely and important job.
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under the American system of broadcasting in which there is no lic¬
ense fee on receiving sets nor a tax on listening, that it is Ameri¬
can business organizations, through the medium of advertising, that
make this vast contribution possible. w
Mr. Woods emphasized two points.
Much of the fine talent, providing entertainment, relaxa¬
tion and Information through the medium of broadcasting, is arranged
for and paid for by American firms which, because their plants are
converted to war production, have no products to sell the nubile. In
addition, It is revenue derived from this commercially snonsored
time (on the Blue Network it is approximately 22 percent of total
time) that makes possible the presentation of war effort programs
on sustaining time.
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Mr. Woods pointed out, "are the result of thinking, programming and
expenditures by commercial clients. The network and the station is
the medium through which these morale builders are presented to a
war working public. Never before, in any war, has private industry
been given such an opportunity to do its share in a nation at war.
"No broadcaster and no group of broadcasters, on their own
initiative could afford to take over this highly Important phase of
war activity. When programs such as 1 The Victory Parade of Spot¬
light Bands' travels hundreds of thousands of miles to entertain
soldiers, sailors, marines or war workers in the war plants, it Is
the result of planning and expenditures by private business. Ameri¬
can broadcasting can be proud of the fact that it can cooperate in
this great campaign carried on at Its own expense and on Its own
initiative by American business. "
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Directors of Decca Records, Inc., in New York established
a new regular quarterly dividend rate of 25 cents per share on the
company5 s capital stock. The new rate for the first quarter will
be paid on March 30 to stockholders of record March 16.
Elizabeth Bemis, wno dally analyzes world news for CBS
listeners is the first woman news broadcaster to be added to Colum¬
bia1 s news staff. For two years she served as top news reporter
at Columbia's affiliate, KLZ, in Denver, and later joined the staff
of the CBS Pacific network as news broadcaster. Currently, she is
heard on Columbia’s afternoon news spot (4:00 P.M. EWT) , broadcast¬
ing from the West Coast.
Sonotone Corooration - For 1942: Net profit, $344,046,
or 43 cents each on 796,378 common shares, against 1941 net of
$346,463, or 43 cents a share on common stock. Sales volume last
year amounted to $5,256,583, or 23 oer cent above the previous year.
Mary Mason of the National Broadcasting Comoany has been
named Secretary and Treasurer of the Standing Committee of Dress
and radio corre spondents of Mrs. Roosevelt’s Press Conference Associ-
ation. Only members of the Association are permitted to attend Mrs.
Roosevelt’s conferences with the press at the White House. All the
members are women. Sometime ago a male representative of PM spoiled
for membership and was turned down.
President Roosevelt’s conferences are open to men and
women radio and press correspondents alike.
A new 10-kilowatt radio transmitter was put into operation
in Peshawar, India, late in 1942, states the U. S, Commerce Depart¬
ment. This station, which is twice as powerful as those in Lahore,
Lucknow, Dacca, and Trichinopoly , is expected to serve the entire
Nortn West Frontier Province,
A bill to amend North Carolina law relating to libel and
slander by radio or television stations has been introduced In the
State Legislature at Raleigh, N. C. , by Rep, William T, Hatch of
Wake. At least five days before bringing a criminal or civil action,
the plaintiff shall specify the time and words or acts alleged to be
false and defamatory, it would be provided by the proposed legisla¬
tion, which adds:
If within 10 days after service of such a notice, a full
and fair correction, apology, or retraction is conveyed or broadcast,
and it appears upon trial that the words or acts were conveyed and
broadcast in good faith, then the plaintiff in civil actions shall
recover only actual damages. If, in a criminal proceeding a verdict
of "guilty” is rendered on such statement of facts, the defendant
would be fined only a penny and costs.
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FTC MOVES AGAINST OLD GOLD
The Federal Trade Commission has issued a complaint, alleg¬
ing misrepresentation in the advertising claims made for Old Gold
cigarettes and certain other tobacco products manufactured by P.
Lorillard Co., Inc. , which has Its principal office in Jersey City
and operates plants in that city and in Louisville, Ky. , Richmond
and Danville, Va. , Middletown, Ohio, and Lancaster, Pa.
Part of the complaint against the Lorillard Company relates
to the advertising campaign it has conducted in periodicals and over
the radio following publication, in the July, 1942, issue of a mon¬
thly magazine of nation-wide and international circulation, of a
report of laboratory tests of "seven leading cigarettes”, which the
respondent corporation subsequently represented as revealing that
Old Gold was lowest in nicotine content and in throat-irritating
tars and resins and was, therefore, "easier on the throat" than any
other brand.
Paid testimonials published by the Lorillard Company in
advertising Old Golds, the complaint further charges, do not reflect
the actual personal experiences, knowledge or beliefs of the signers,
some of whom smoke other brands as well as Old Golds while others
are non-smokers. Many of these testimonials, It is alleged, are
pre-written by representatives of the respondent and are signed by
the te stimonialists without their knowing or being advised of the
contents.
Other Lorillard products involved in the complaint are
Beech-Nut and Sensation cigarettes and Friends smoking tobacco.
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EDUCATOR SAYS RADIO REPLACES OLD COPYBOOK
The old copybooks are gone and the radio receiver is now a
standard piece of classroom equipment, according to Dr. Belmont
Farley, co-ordinator of radio activities for the National Education
Association. Dr. Farley, addressing 400 teachers and students
gathered at dedicatory ceremonies for the first courses based on
radio programs to be accepted by New York City’s Board of Super¬
intendents for teacher in-service training paid tribute to Sterling
misher, Director of NBC’ s Inter- American University of the Air",
whose years of service in this field have been an outstanding con¬
tribution. ’’
"Fisher’s long experience in radio and the notable exper¬
ience in education of Dr. James Rowland Angeli, President Emeritus
of Yale University and NBC Public Service Counselor", Dr, Parley
told the assembled guests, "are being drawn upon to make the Inter-
American University of the Air the outstanding adult-level educa¬
tional program in the world.
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INDEX TO ISSUE OF MARCH 9, 1943
Sale of Radio Time Increases $23,267,256 In Year . . .1
ASCAP Issues Simplified Radio Station Reports .
Erikson New CBS Sales Chief; John Karol Assistant..., .
Fly Says Radio Now Only In Its Horse And Buggy Days .
Peru Takes Over Its Most Powerful Station .
McIntosh Moves Upstairs At WPB .
Fulton Lewis, Jr, Comes Home With The Bacon . . .
International Communications Merger Seen Next .
Sir Thomas Beecham Sues Columbia Records For $600,000 .
MacKenty, New Radiomarine Vice-President and General Manager
Advertising Campaign To Promote WRC, Washington
Swedish Manufacturers To Make Badio Parts .
FCC Common Carrier Statistics . . . . . . 9
Trade Notes . 10
Wright, New I, T. & T. V-P . . . ..11
Mutual President Outlines Expansion Plan For ’43 . 11
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March 9 , 1943
SALE OF RADIO TIME INCREASES 123,267,256 IN YEAR
The broadcast business in the United States received from
the sale of time $178,091,043 in 1941, an Increase of $23,267,25 6,
or 15 percent, over the amount for 1940, according to financial data
filed with the Commission by three nation-wide network companies, the
seven regional networks, and 817 stations. In addition to time sales,
the industry reported revenues of $15,190,335 from the sale of talent
and other services during 1941, an increase of $2,008,387 over the
amount reported for the previous year. Broadcast service income
(operating profit) of the entire industry for 1941 exceeded the
amount reported for 1940 by more than $11,542,318, or about 35 per¬
cent.
The three nationwide network companies (NBC, CBS, and
Mutual), reported to the Federal Communications Commission combined
time sales of $79,621,534 for the year, up about 11 percent over 1940.
The National Broadcasting Co. , through Its dual networks, accounted
for $40,378,764, while the figures for CBS and Mutual were
$34,386,040 and $4,856,730, respectively. They paid to stations
under contract and to regional networks $25,651,249 compered to
$22,123,760 in the year pervious. The combined broadcast service
income as reported by NBC, CBS and Mutual, including the operations
of their networks and stations, was $16,897,944 before Federal income
tax. After provision for Federal income tax, the net income was
$4,579,315 for NBC, $5,633,297 for CBS, and a loss of $32,279 for
Mutual.
The purely non-network business (time sold to local and
national advertisers by the 817 stations) of the industry was
$97,379,610, bettering the previous year by $15,482,374, or approxi¬
mately 19 percent. The broadcast service income of 784 stations not
operated by or for the networks amounted to $27,056,162, an increase
of $7,932,553, or approximately 41 percent,
A total of 177 stations reported broadcast service deficits
in 1941. These stations had total time sales of $7,629,969, total
expenses of $8,706,066, and lost in the aggregate $1,209,795. These
figures include losses for 10 of 54 new stations, the remaining 44
having operated at a profit. However, the number of stations showing
broadcast service deficits was under the figure for 1940, when 187
stations lost $1,551,812.
As of December 31, 1941, the industry employed 24,728 per-
The payroll for the year 1941 was $50,668,977.
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At the close of the fiscal year there were fourteen inter¬
national broadcast stations in operation within the United States.
One, a 100-kilowatt station located in San Francisco, was licensed
during the year.
All international broadcast stations are now programmed by
the Office of War Information and the Office of the Coordinator of
Inter- American Affairs. The Commission cooperates closely In deter¬
mining optimum frequency, power, antenna structure, and hours of ser¬
vice for broadcasts from these stations to foreign areas. Commission
engineers have cooperated in designing new stations and antennas in
this international service,
XXXXXXXXX
ASCAP ISSUES SIMPLIFIED RADIO STATION REPORTS
In response to many requests made by radio stations who
have felt the pinch of personnel due to the war, the American
Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers announced yesterday
(Monday) the issue of a simplified report for those radio stations
having a local blanket commercial license. This is the first time
that the Society has made a change in the local blanket commercial
license reports. Changes were previously made in the per-progrem
license reports after they were first drawn up.
The new forms, which ASCAP feels sure will meet the require¬
ments of both the Society and the stations, will be used for the
first time on the March reports. These forms will be furnished the
radio stations by the Society as has been done in the past.
XXXXXXXX
ERIKSON NEW CBS SALES CHIEF; JOHN KAROL ASSISTANT
Because of increased business that has come to the Columbia
Broadcasting System in the last few months, William C. G-lttinger,
CBS Vice President in Charge of Sales, announces that Leonard F.
Erikson, CBS Western Sales Manager, is to become Network Sales
Manager. Effective immediately, John J. Karol becomes an Assistant
Sales Manager in addition to his duties as Market Research Sales
Counsel.
In taking over the Network Sales managership, Mr. Erikson,
a CBS veteran of almost 13 years, fills a position vacant since
January 1940. For the time being he will continue to operate from
the CBS Chicago office, but is expected to take up his duties in the
New York office of the network within a few months*
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tinue to act as liaison between CBS’s Sales and its Station Rela¬
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Sales Department, will replace Erikson as Western Sales Manager,
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FLY SAYS RADIO NOW ONLY IN ITS HORSE AND BUGGY DAYS
Broadcasting in the future is going to be substantially
different from what it is today, Chairman James L. Fly of the Federal
Communications Commission said yesterday (Monday), The subject came
up in a discussion of the future of television and FM when someone
said to the Chairman:
”Do you suppose that once the war is over the bulk of the
Commission’s business as far as licensing stations is going to shift
rather rapidly from standard broadcasting to television and FM?”
"Well, for what my thoughts are ivorth, I believe that in
the course of a very few years there will be only one service ”, Mr,
Fly replied, ’’This business of having television broadcasting,
standard broadcasting, FM, facsimile, and separate receivers and
separate services - that will all be washed out. In the course of
years, of course we don’t know how many, but I would guess it is not
very far around the corner, we will have one very thorough- going and
efficient broadcasting, I would conjecture that it would be based
upon the best of the developments we have had to date and those that
we get out of war in the FM field and in television, perhaps includ¬
ing color television. It will be a chain operation carried by radio
relay. Radio relay problems are pretty well licked now. It would
naturally be chain operation because we have the programming costs -
the difficulty of programming television itself in the various small¬
er stations. I should not be surprised In the course of years if you
will have only one receiver. You will have as a basis your highly
efficient FM operation and then at appropriate hours the television
programs. Every hour or so you will come down and tear off your
news reports. We have been in the horse and buggy days up to now, M
In connection with the television and FM situation the
Chairman had previously said:
"I suppose you noted that we relaxed the rules on FM and
television applications. They were given somewhat different treat¬
ment than the regular broadcast applications. We liberalized the
rules regarding FM and television applications permitting them to
stay on the books during the war and not be dismissed. Since the
change in the rules we have had a number of requests for reinstate-
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raent for FM applications. I think there are four or five of these
that have been filed already. I imagine that the television stations
will as far as the external situation is concerned remain pretty much
in the status quo during the war. You know about what the present
operations are in that field - New York, Schenectady* Philadelphia*
Chicago, Los Angeles - are some actual operations, but the really big
thing in both fields is the improvement that we will see in all fields
of broadcasting as soon as the war is over.
’’Are you familiar with these four or five requests? Do you
happen to know if they are people who are already engaged in standard
broadcasting?” Mr. Fly was asked.
’’You mean for reinstatement of their applications? I think
I may have them here. The two that were just received were WDRC,
Inc., in Hartford (W65H), and Amarillo Broadcasting Co., Amarillo,
Texas. (K51AM) ; Houston Printing Corp. , Houston has asked for rein¬
statement of Its application; also the Bremer Corp., Jersey City,N.J. ,
permittee of W95NJ„ I don't think the Houston application had got as
far as to get call letters* ”
’’What is the specific advantage - that they will have
priority in consideration once construction Is allowed, or is there
something more tangible than that?
’’Perhaps It is Intangible”, the ^CC Chairman concluded;
"it is simply because we want to encourage FM and television as much
as we can and cause the least trouble possible. The things we want
to get Is a demonstration of the good faith and intention of the
parties to go ahead and put up FM and television stations and serve
the public with them. There were not enough of those applications
that they would be alarming from the quantitative point of view, and
in most localities of course there are plenty of frequencies so there
would not be the same embarrassment and difficulties that we would
have in the standard broadcasting field, where there is a great
scarcity of frequencies. "
XXXXXXXX
PERU TAKES OVfR ITS MOST POWERFUL STATION
Radio Nacional, Peru's most powerful broadcasting station,
was taken over by the Government on expiration of its charter
recently.
Radio-receiving sets imported by Peru during the first 11
months of 1942 weighed approximately 125,000 gross kilograms, com¬
pared with 149,333 kilograms during the corresponding period of 1939.
Approximately 70,000 receiving sets were in use at the end
of 1942, and transmission facilities Included 37 radio-telegraph
stations in the national system and 16 broadcasting stations. All
amateur stations were ordered closed in January, 1942, and the only
private stations allowed to continue in operation were those located
in isolated mining districts.
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MC INTOSH MOVES UPSTAIRS AT WPB
You now address Frank H. McIntosh as Assistant Director
of the Radio Division of the War Production Board. Me. McIntosh5 8
rise has been steady. He came into the picture about a year ago
when he was given a leave of absence from his duties as Technical
Suoervisor of the Fort Industries having stations in Georgia, Ohio
and West Virginia. Mr, McIntosh at that time joined up with Uncle
Sam as Chief of the WP3 Radio Section.
Military production has now been allocated to three divi¬
sions, each headed by an Assistant Director. So that the civilian
radio needs would be met, a fourth division was created under the
direction of Mr, McIntosh. He is charged with the duty of insuring
a sufficient supply of parts and tubes to maintain civilian radio,
including receiving sets and transmitters.
In a statement last week Mr. McIntosh said that with the
new program under way (known as the Victory Line of replacement
parts), owners of radios, regardless of their make and vintage would
be able to keep their sets in repair, Mr. McIntosh pointed out that
the smaller number of replacement parts will greatly speed up produc¬
tion. For example, 350 types of electrolytic condensers were reduced
to nine and the number of types of tubes, according to Mr. McIntosh,
would be reduced from 700 to 114, The types for production, however,
would be adequate substitutes for the others.
XXXXXXXXX
FULTON LEWIS, JR. COMES HOME WITH THE BACON
Fulton Lewis, Jr. , Mutual news commentator, won the Alfred
I. du Pont Radio prize as the commentator who had performed the most
outstanding public service of the year. KGEI, the General Electric
snort- wave station at San Francisco, was cited for premier station
public service. Both awards were accompanied by checks for $l,000o
The presentation of the awards was broadcast by Mutual.
On the program were Dr. Francis P. Gaines, President of Washington
and Lee University, who made the presentation, and Miller McClintock,
President of the Mutual Broadcasting System.
XXXXXXXX
Following a three-mont test, ^For the Love of Mike", a daily
and Sunday radio column written by Ben Kaolan, Providence ( R. I.)
Journal-Bulletin writer, is ready for national release. Bell Syndi¬
cate ha 8 announced. Kaplan formerly worked on several New York
State newspapers and several years ago began writing a daily radio
rhyme for the Worcester (Mass. ) Telegram.
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3/9/43
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS MERGER SEEN NEXT
In connection with President Roosevelt signing the bill to
merge the Western Union and the Postal, Chairman James L. Ely of the
Federal Communications Commission, was asked if there had been any
discussions for the ground work for the possible international merger
to follow, the questioner saying he had heard there was an under*
standing that the international merger bill will be taken up now,
WI don’t think there was any formal or definite understand¬
ing. I think it is rather a natural expectation that the interna¬
tional will be taken up and dealt with*, the Chairman replied. "In
fact in the provisions of this new Act you will see the first step
in that direction, a provision which requires Western Union to divert
itself of its International facilities and cables. That being
accomplished we will have taken the first step toward the interna¬
tional merger and as a matter of fact I should not be surprised if
that move in itself will make the international merger a very natural
if not utterly necessary next step. As heretofore, almost everyone
in the Government, and as far as I know everyone in the industry, is
in favor of the merger of international facilities. I certainly do
not Intend to forget it for a moment. I think it is highly essential
and the need for the merger, quite apart from this particular problem
of Western Union cables, the need for the merger is more accentuated
every day. 11
’’There is not the pressing economic factor Is there as In
the case of Postal?” the inquirer suggested.
"No”, was the reply. "We don’t have the economists step¬
ping on our heels on every turn as we did with the Western Union and
Postal situation. You have there a long range economic problem -
maybe more serious. That Is «> what will ultimately become of the
cables? Twenty-five years ago there was a question ae to what would
happen to the infant radio If it were combined with the cables. There
was great danger of Its being snuffed out. New, with the advance in
the science of radio and its great efficiencies and economics of
course it can and is going into the international field very, very
rapidly and will continue to expand - probably continue to become
more efficient. In the long run the question is going to be how
are we going to save the cables? There Is heavy Investment there.
Some of them are slow in operation and expensive in operation. ”
Apropos the signing of the Western Union-Postal bill, Mr,
Fly said further:
"I have from time to time, and for that matter recently,
had some conversations with the heads of the telegraph companies.
They have been doing some spade work in the course of weeks - perhaps
months. They have made considerable progress with that. I think
they will start more serious meetings very promptly now and every ef¬
fort will be made, I am sure, to move the business along. I canst
conjecture as to when the negotiations will be completed or the
merger will be effected. There is a lot of work to be done but thus
far I think everybody is in the mood to move as expeditiously as
may be. ”
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SIR THOMAS BEE CHAM SUES COLUMBIA RECORDS FOR $ 600, 000
Sir Thomas Beecham, British orchestra leader and now con¬
ductor at the Metropolitan Opera, has filed a suit in the New York
Supreme Court for $600,000 damages and for an injunction to restrain
the Columbia Recording Corporation from manufacturing and selling
certain phonograph records made by him with the New York Philharmonic-
Symphony Orchestra.
Sir Thomas contends, according to his attorney, Herbert M.
Karp, that the recordings were "imperfect " and not up to the stand¬
ard set by his previous recordings in England, and that the company
had "ample notice that they were defective".
The libel damages are sought, Mr. Karo said, because of an
alleged statement that Sir Thomas "knew nothing of recordings", that
he "hated the Philharmonic" and that "the men played his game".
Goldmark, Colin & Kaye, attorneys for the company, said its
answer had not been prepared and that they would make no statement at
present. Officials of the company were not reached here, but they
were quoted, when reports of the quarrel first were broached, as say¬
ing that Sir Thomas heard playbacks of the recordings as they were
made and was satisfied with them, and that only records from a single
press were deficient.
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MAC KENTY, NEW RADIO MARINE VICE-PRESIDENT & GEN’L MANAGER
John Gilman MacKenty, for many years Assistant to the Vice-
President of Radio Corporation of America in charge of RCA Labora¬
tories, has been elected Vice-President and General Manager, and
Director, of Radiomarine Corporation of America.
Mr. MacKenty, who has been a member of the staff of Radio
Corporation of America for twenty-one years, has been in charge of
foreign license contracts of RCA since 1930. After attending Shef¬
field Scientific School of Yale University, he became associated with
the Sales Department of RCA in 1922.
Radiomarine Corporation is engaged principally in the pro¬
duction of radio communication apparatus for the United States
Government and in the general marine radio business. Several months
ago the Army and Navy "E" was awarded to Radiomarine. On Monday,
March 8th, the Maritime Commission "M" pennant, Victory Fleet Flag
and merit badges for Radiomarine’s 643 employees, will be presented
by Admiral H. L. Vickery, U.S.N., Vice Chairman U. S. Maritime Com¬
mission, Washington, D. C.
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ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN TO PROMOTE WRC, WASHINGTON
A 10-weeks advertising campaign in Washington, D, C. , news¬
papers, to promote NBC’s manage d- and- ope rated outlet WRC, of which
Carle ton D. Smith is Manager, will be instituted by the National
Broadcasting Company beginning today. In the campaign, which is
believed to be one of the moat extensive of its kind to be conducted
by a national network, all daily papers in the Capital will be used.
Foote, Cone & Belding, Inc. , is nandling the account.
The standard size Star, Post, and Time s-Herald will
receive a total of 13,500 lines each, comprising three 1500-line
insertions and nine insertions of 1000 lines each. Twelve insertions
of 900-line advertisements will be placed in the tabloid News.
Divided into three series, each devoted to a specific
type of program, the campaign ooens with copy promoting WRC’s posi¬
tion as a "World News Center'5, by virtue of its network news uro¬
grams. Under such headings as ,5Tune in to WRC - 980 on your Dial -
and a Window Opens on the World", and "Here's Why WRC - 980 on Your
Dial - is Your News Passport to the World", the cony emphasizes the
comprehensive all-day news coverage supplied WRC’s listeners by NBC9 s
wo rid- wide staff of reporters and commentators. Staff members are
personalized with thumb-nail sketches and photographs. The keynote
of the series is expressed in the slogan, carried in all copy,
"These (program) services are among the benefits of the American
System of free radio".
Included in each advertisement is a time-table listing of
all WRC newscasts from 8 A.M. to 1 A. M.
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SWEDISH MANUFACTURERS TO MAKE RADIO PARTS
A group of Swedish manufacturers of radio receiving sets
was reported in November to be forming a corporation to make parts
which were formerly imported, but now are increasingly difficult to
obtain because of shipping conditions. For a time, limited quantities
of parts were received from Germany, but deliveries from that source
are becoming more and more uncertain and prices have more than
trebled since 1939, says a Commerce Department bulletin.
The new company, which will probably be known as Radloln-
dustriens Fabriks AB, has acquired a factory building in Stockholm.
Arrangements are said to have been made to obtain necessary machin¬
ery. Operations are expected to start early In 1943, with mica and
electrolytic condensers as the first products. (Mica is found in
northern Sweden.) Later, other oarts will be made.
One radio manufacturing company in Sweden already produced
oarts, but only for its own use, because it does not have sufficient
equipment to suooly the entire industry.
Radio tubes are manufactured in substantial quantities by
a Swedish firm, which started making them in 1939, Production now
approximates 2,000 per day.
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3/9/43
FCC COMMON CARRIER STATISTICS
For the calendar year 1941, annual reports were filed at
the Federal Communications Commission by 218 companies including 135
telephone carriers, 38 wire-telegraph, ocean-cable, and radiotele¬
graph carriers, and 45 holding companies. These reoorts contain
considerable financial and operating data relating to the communica¬
tions industry. In addition, 40 carriers filed reports concerning
traffic damage claims oaid during the year 1941 by telegraph, cable
and radiotelegraph carriers. Certain statistical data for the
calendar year 19*41 relative to large common carriers reporting to
the Commission are shown in the following table:
Item
Telephone
Carriers
Wire- tele graph
& Ocean-cable
Carriers
Radio
telegraph
Carriers
Investment in olant
and equipment
$5,393,579,802
$486,844, 562
$30,314,488
Depreciation and
Amortization
Re se rve s
1,526, 682,183
180,056,404
16, 682, 606
Net investment in
plant and equipment
$3,866,897, 619
$309,788,158
$13,631,882
Operating revenues 1 /
1,407,761,066
149,315, 654
15,725,900
Operating expenses 1 /
918,194,439
125, 927, 627
9,936,473
Net operating income
489,566, 627
23,388,027
5,789,427
Net income
210,019,491
6,111,860
1, 645,940
Number of employees
at end of year
345,439
74,298
3,852
Total oayroll for
the year
$603,410,323
90, 942,052
$7,133,569
1/ Approximately $32,000,000 of intercomoany general service and
license fees and rents of the Bell System have not been eliminat¬
ed from these amounts.
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TRADE NOTES : :
t 9
Citing numerous instances where the State Department has
Interfered with Elmer Davis and alleging that Secretary Hull even
tried to have the Office of War Information abolished; Drew Pearson
writes that in North Africa the State Department refused to let OWI
take over the local radio station and permitted the Moroccan radio
to continue to put out pro-Vichy propaganda for weeks after the
American occupation.
Requests for reinstatement of FM high frequency applica¬
tions in a ccordance with the Commission’s policy of last February
have been received from the Houston Printing Corp. , Housing, Texas,
asking for a construction permit for new high frequency broadcast
station on 46,500 kilocycles, coverage 10,500 square miles; also
WOKO, Inc., Albany, N. Y. , T«New Scotland, N.Y. , for a construction
permit for new high frequency broadcast station on 45,100 kilocycles,
coverage 922,163 square miles*
San Francisco public schools have Just completed a six
months experiment in radio education, the first of its kind in the
United States, and Public school executives and teachers are most
enthusiastic about the results.
Last Fall the Board of Education purchased and installed
eighty General Electric frequency modulation radio receivers in
local schools. FM radios are static free, enjoy full tone range,
and prevent interference from other stations* The San Francisco
public schools operate their own frequency modulation transmitter
at the Samuel Gomoers Trade School and for the past six months have
utilized the General Electric sets to receive specially chosen
educational and musical programs for children. Emerson School re¬
ceived the first of the FM sets to be delivered.
The story of tne role of communications in aerial warfare,
and the benind-the-scene view of how communications help guard our
defenses, was scheduled to be told on the ’’This Nation at War”
broadcast over the BLUE Network tonight (Tuesday). The program
was to open with a talk by Col. A. W. Marriner, Chief of the Com¬
munications Section of the Air Forces at Washington, D. C. ; thence to
Chicago for a pick-up from the Air Force Communications Section
wnere technicians are trained. From the Bendix plant in Baltimore,
Md. there was to come the story of how the communicating apparatus
for planes is made, and finally a talk by Gen. Willis R. Taylor, of
Mitchell Field, on how radio equipment and other communication
devices are used for defense against aerial navigation.
Discussing the foreign propaganda situation, Elmer Davis,
Director of OWI said although short-wave broadcasts are growing less
effective, as receiving sets in occupied countries wear out, the
radio often cuts deep into German prestige. There are at least 8 or
10 clandestine papers in Poland, Lithuania and France, he said, which
get their news by radio. These are widely circulated, even getting
into prison camps. For this too, there is a price in blood. From
time to time the Germans shoot the radio 11s teners , not only for
listening but for relaying the news.
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WRIGHT, NEW I. T. & T. V-P
The election of John S. Wright as a Vice-President of
International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation was announced
yesterday (Monday), following action of the Board of Directors. Mr.
Wright has been Vice-President of International Standa.rd Electric
Corporation, which controls most of I. T. & T.’s manufacturing pro¬
perties outside the United States, an office he will retain.
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ard Electric and Its predecessors for thirty-seven years. He was
formerly European Continental Manager of International Standard
Electric in Paris and later was made Regional Vice-President of
the company for Holland, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Spain and
Portugal. He has been in the Company’s New York offices since 1941.
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MUTUAL PRESIDENT OUTLINES EXPANSION PLAN FOR *43
A six-point program for Mutual network operations in 1943,
which will "make Mutual second to none in serving the advertiser and
the listeners”, was outlined by Miller McClintock, Mutual Broadcast¬
ing System President.
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1. The largest budget in the network’s eight-year history.
2. Regular program clinics attended by key originating stations.
3. Increased network service to member and affiliated stations
in programming and promotion.
4. An enlarged research department.
5. New policies to make Mutual more than ever "the friendly
network ".
6. Equal sales emphasis on the major markets and the "small
towns of America".
"It is going to be our policy to make Mutual a friendly
network, easy to do business with", said Mr, McClintock. "We will
see to it that our organization follows this principle harmoniously
and progressively. The network expansion will touch all the depart¬
ments of the organization but will come in an evolutionary rather
than a revolutionary way, "
The cooperative structure of Mutual - that of a station-
operated network - will continue permanently, but with a tightening
of coordination from top to bottom. Mr. McClintock stated that the
cooperative set-up makes it possible for stations to feature aggres¬
sive merchandising and sales promotion efforts for sponsors. "
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2400 CALIFORNIA STREET WASHINGTON, D. C.
NATIONAL BROADCASTING COMPANY, Inc,
general library
30 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA, NEW YORK, N. Y.
INDEX TO ISSUE OF MARCH 12, 1943
Radio Favored In Further Quartz Crystal Restriction . 1
President Strengthens Hand Of OWI . 2
Senate Still Marking Time In Petrillo Case .
Noble, WMCA Owner, Buys 23,400 Acre Georgia Island.
Thurman Arnold May Become Big Factor In Radio Cases
Wheeler Solves His Communications Manpower Problem.
Sponsor Renews As Winchell Again Bobs Up In Congress .
FCC Sets Up Western Union-Postal Merger Committee .
Broadcast Engineers And Technicians Eligible For MCn Books
Mrs. Roosevelt Suggests Kay Kyser Be Drafted . . .
OWI Uses Axe On Superfluous Government Publications .
FCC Action .
Trade Notes . 10
New RCA Circuit Links Dakar With New York . 11
WOR* s ”Wax Museum” Moves Science Museum March 16 . 11
No. 1511
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RADIO FAVORED IN ^RTHER QUARTZ CRYSTAL RESTRICTION
Clarifying the status of radio regulations governing the
use of quartz crystals were further tightened this week with the
issuance of an amendment to General Conservation Order of the War
Production Board that will permit the Director General for Operations
to issue special directions with respect to the use, fabrication and
delivery of the uncut crystals, semi-finished products, and scrap
quartz. The amended regulation retains the essential provisions of
the original order in a revised form. The language has been re¬
arranged, and the intent made explicit by insertion of additional
de finitions.
Effective immediately no person shall fabricate quartz
crystals or blanks except in the manufacture of:
(1) Radio oscillators and filters or other productions for use
in implements of war.
(2) Radio oscillators and filters for use in radio systems to
be owned, used, and operated by Federal agencies, or by commercial
airlines.
(3) Telephone resonators.
(4) Optical parts for use in implements of war.
(5) Radio oscillators and filters and optical parts to be used
in the replacement of parts which are defective, cracked, or broken,
provided the equipment or instruments requiring such parts are imple¬
ments of war or are needed solely in activities directly connection
with defense, public health, welfare, or security, or
(6) Ra.dio oscillators and filters to be exported to any foreign
country for use in radio systems owned, used, and operated by a
governmental department or agency of such foreign country or for use
by a commercial airline operating in such foreign country.
Effective immediately no person shall fabricate radio
oscillators, radio filters, or ootical parts from scrap except as
specifically authorized in writing by the Director General for Opera¬
tions. Application for such authorization shall be made by letter in
triplicate.
Every person who, on the 18th day of May, 1942, or on the
last day of any calendar month thereafter has title to or is in pos¬
session or control of twenty-five pounds or more of quartz crystals,
or more than ten pieces in the form of blanks or in other semi-fabri¬
cated or fabricated forms thereof, which have not been mounted or
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Installed in holders, shall, on or before the close of business on
the 5th day of the succeeding month, report to the War Production
Board.
Every person who fabricates quartz crystals or blanks dur¬
ing any calendar month shall report to the War Production Board on
or before the 5th day of the succeeding calendar month.
The purpose of the amendment is to conserve the available
supply of quartz crystals and to assure proper grading and maximum
utilization of the material. Due to the scant supply and a rela¬
tively large demand, quartz crystals are classed as a critical war
material.
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PRESIDENT STRENGTHENS HAND OF OWI
The Office of War Information won quite a victory through
President Roosevelt backing up Elmer Davis in his fight with the
Office of Strategic Services over control of propaganda, abroad, in¬
cluding the short-wave services. Also a reorganization of the OWI
domestic service including radio was effected.
By Executive Order, President Roosevelt gave Elmer Davis’
office responsibility for the planning, development and execution of
’’all phases of the Federal program of radio, press, publication and
related foreign propaganda activities, involving the dissemination of
information''.
White House Secretary Stephen Early said the Office of
Strategic Services, headed by Col. William J. (Wild Bill) Donovan,
would continue to handle military matters in cooperation with the
Army and Navy.
Under the presidential order, OWI’ s authority was limited
to United States, Canada and abroad, but not Latin America which is
now under the Jurisdiction of Nelson Rockefeller's Office of the
Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, including the short-wave
broa dcasts.
Major effects of the domestic branch reorganization, which
is expected to save the agency $400,000 in a proposed domestic budget
of about 10 million dollars, include the dismissal of about 100 em¬
ployees and the abolisnment of the Bureau of Intelligence which serv¬
ed as a poll taking agency. The domestic branch of OWI carried
about 1500 employees.
The reorganization involves consolidation of certain bureaus
and units and a general tightening up of the operations of the
Domestic Branch, but doesn’t effect the present radio set-up.
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Under the reorganization, policy liaison with other depart¬
ments of the Government will continue to be maintained by a staff of
inter-departmental deputies. War information will continue to be
issued through the News, Radio, and other Media Bureaus,
The Bureau of Intelligence will be abolished as a separate
bureau and activities in this field will be reduced about one-half,
and limited to those necessary in connection with specific operating
problems. Public opinion surveys and other research will be continu¬
ed in the Bureau of Special Services, to be headed by Katherine C.
Blackburn. Elmo C. Wilson will continue in charge of the Surveys
Division in this Bureau.
Functions of the Bureau of Publications and Graphics will
be split between two bureaus: The Bureau of Publications, with a
cnief yet to be named, and a Bureau of Graphics and Printing, to be
headed by Lt. Comdr. Price Gilbert, on temporary loan from the Navy.
The present Plans Division will be re-constituted as an
office of Program Coordination under H. Andrew Dudley, Chief, and
will be strengthened. Its function will be to plan and coordinate
broad war information programs in conjunction with the Government
agencies concerned.
Other changes announced included the promotion of John R.
Fleming from the Bureau of Publications and Graphics to a Special
Deputyshlp, and the appointment of A, H. Feller, now a Deputy as
General Counsel of OWI.
Under the new plan, James Allen, Assistant Domestic Dir¬
ector in charge of oolicy, will supervise the work of the deputies
and will be administratively responsible for the News, Publications
and Special Services Bureaus. William B. Lewis, Assistant Domestic
Director in charge of plans and oroduction, will be responsible for
program coordination and for the Radio, Motion Pictures and Graphics
and Printing Bureaus.
According to Domestic Director Gardner Cowles, Jr. , ,!The
reorganization represents an effort to gear ourselves up better to
what is primarily our Job of helping the Press, Radio, and other
media to get out the news of the war and the information the people
at home need to win it. We must substantially improve OWI* s output,
cutting out the waste motion. We intend to concentrate on the most
essential activities. "
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An observer in New York noted for his political wisdom,
asked what ne thought of the chances for presidential success for the
Republicans in 1944, replied:
MThe G.O.P. can elect Fulton Lewis, Jr., Churchill or any--
one else they might out up. "
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SENATE STILL MARKING TIME IN PETRILLO CASE
The Senate subcommittee headed by Senator Clark ( D) , of
Idano, Is still marking time in the case of James C. Petrillo, Presi¬
dent of the American Federation of Music, awaiting the outcome of
the A. F. M. meeting in Chicago next Tuesday. It is reported that
the musicians will then offer a second proposal for the raising
of the seven months* ban on the manufacture of transcriptions and
records. If this is not done, Senator Clark has given every indica¬
tion that he will proceed with the Senate hearings and possibly might
even take the matter up with President Roosevelt personally.
In the meantime, according to a New York dispatch, record¬
ing companies are running dangerously low on new releases by major
bands. Majority of outfits in the top bracket, virtually the only
band names being released on pop nlatters, have only a few unreleas¬
ed masters remaining, and some have already exhausted the supply laid
in before the ban became effective. Sammy Kaye (Victor) is among the
latter. Harry James, the Dorseys, et al. still have a few sides not
yet marketed.
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NOBLE, WMCA OWNER, BUYS 23,400 ACRE GEORGIA ISLAND
Edward J. Noble, owner of Station WMCA, New York, former
Under Secretary of Commerce, and President of the Life Savers
Candy Corporation, has bought St. Catherine Island near Savannah,
Georgia.
The 23,400-acre island, about ten miles long and four miles
wide, will be devoted to cattle raising and timber production.
It is one of tne oldest land titles in Georgia, dating
back to a Spanish mission which Dreceded Oglethorpe's landing at
Savannan. A WpA publication accredits a Jesuit monk, Domingo August¬
in, with having written on the island in 1568 the New World's first
book.
,!I look upon it as a matter of essential business", Mr,
Noble declared, "and am going into it as a capital investment. Food
is going to be a major problem in this country and we are all faced
with a responsibility to undertake some essential activity. I am
going into cattle raising and timber raising. The idea is to raise
a large number of Black Angus cattle. I also expect to plant timber
and make this project a continuous operation. "
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THURMAN ARNOLD MAY BECOME BIG FACTOR IN RADIO CASES
Now that Thurman Arnold, No. 1 trust buster has been eased
out of the Department of Justice and confirmed as a Judge in the
District Court of Appeals, which handles all Federal Communications
Commission appeals, he may become an imoortant factor in radio and
communications litigation. That is if he remains there that long.
It is generally known that Mr. Arnold looks upon this as just another
Job and a stop-gap until he can find something better.
At present there is only one radio case of importance oend-
ing in the Court, the appeal of the Crosley Radio Corporation from
the FCC order denying W8X0*s application for 750,000 watts oower.
Mr. Arnold's exit from the Justice Department was marked by
a testimonial dinner given to him by officials in Government and
business which was attended by about 600 persons.
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WHEELER SOLVES HIS COMUNI CATIONS MANPOWER PROBLEM
Drew Pearson, in his syndicated column writes:
"Montana sugar beet farmers, desperately hard up for labor,
doubtless will be interested in the way one of their two Senators,
Burton K„ Wheeler, solved a manpower problem with the help of the
United States Navy.
"Senator Wheeler is Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Com¬
mittee, which sponsored the bill to merge the Western Union and
Postal Telegraph companies.
"Early last year, an investigator for this Committee, Edward
Cooper, obtained a commission as a lieutenant in the Navy5s Communi¬
cations section. Now Senator Wheeler has got Lieutenant Cooper as¬
signed back to the Interstate Commerce Committee.
"Wheeler went right to the top to swing this little deal.
He urged Navy Secretary Knox to oermit Cooper to return to his old
job until the telegraph merger bill passed Congress. Wheeler explain¬
ed that Cooper's services were sorely needed because he had given a
great deal of time and study to the legislation. Knox referred the
request to Navy personnel officials, with the result that Lieutenant
Coooer was given an indefinite leave to assist Wheeler as long as
needed. He has been occupying an office close to Wheeler' s in the
Senate Office Building since February 1.
"Just what his duties are remains a mystery. All studies
relative to the merger bill were completed last year, and the bill
was sent to the President for his signature February 25, yet Coooer
at last reoort, was still occuoying an office on Capitol Hill."
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SPONSOR RENEWS AS WINCHELL AGAIN BOBS UP IN CONGRESS
At almost the same time that word was received that Walter
Winchell ’s soonsor had renewed his contract, the commentator’s name
again came up in Congress. The Andrew Jergens Company announced
that it had signed up the "Jergens Journal" with Mr. Winchell for
another 52 weeks on the Blue Network. Winchell, heard Sundays at
9 p.M. EWT, on 112 stations, has been on the Blue since December, 1932.
Mr. Winchell again came to Congressional attention when
Vance I. Morris, Jr. , a yeoman in the Navy, addressing a vigorous
letter of defense of the commentator to Representatives Magnuson, ( D) ,
of Wasnington, and Hoffman ( R) , of Michigan, wrote, in part:
"When the Secretary of the Navy, the Chief of the Bureau
of Navigation (now the Bureau of Naval Personnel) , and the Director
of public Relations approve of Mr. Winchell’ s broadcasts, I ask you,
Mr. Congressman, who is a layman to contest the judgment of the men
that are running this war (and a good job, too) in which the Navy is
playing such an important part.
’’When you speak of tne fighting men of the Navy you may
forget that Admiral Niraitz is in command of the Pacific forces that
defeated tne Japs at Midway and that ne is the same Admiral Nimitz
wno said tnat Lieutenant Commander Winchell’ s broadcasts were of
tremendous value to the Navy..
"You have formed your opinion and have denounced Mr. Win-
cJtiell in the press. I am a sailor, 21 years old, that believesin
America with all his heart and soul and I, too, have formed my opin¬
ion of Mr. Winchell and I say that if tne country had more men like
him it would be too bad for Hitler and others who dislike Mr. Winchell
and the right of the American people to criticize the people they
elect to serve them in public office."
To which Representative Hoffman replied:
"Now both you and Mr. Winchell are entitled to your opinion
as I am to mine but when your friend Winchell refers to some
14,000,000 Americans as being ’damned fools’ and when he peddles so
much dirty, nasty gossip, when he reflects upon the chastity of Joan
of Arc and when, having been certified fit for active duty, he asked
to be deferred and spends much of his time hanging around question¬
able resorts, millions of Americans have no use for him.
nYou are in the Navy but you are not the only one who is in
the Navy and you will observe, if you have noted the facts, that Mr.
Winchell does all his fighting with his mouth and so far as we are
advised has made no substantial contribution, either of service or
of property, to the war effort, while many of us have sacrificed
practically everything we had in aid of the war.
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"You are still .young and when you reach my age, 67, exper¬
ience will have enabled you to form a more accurate opinion of people
generally.
"Good luck to you a fine man. "
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FCC SETS UP WESTERN UNION-POSTAL MERGER COMMITTEE
A committee consisting of Commissioners George Henry Payne,
Ray C. Wakefield, and Clifford J. Durr, with Commissioner Payne as
Chairman, was appointed this week by the Federal Communica tions Com¬
mission in connection with the proposed merger of the Western Union
and Postal Telegraph Companies permitted under legislation which
became final with the President’s signature announced on Monday.
The Commission expressed the desire to be currently informed on the
progress of any negotiations by tne two companies,,
A staff committee, headed by William J. Norfleet, Chief
Accountant, and Including Manfred K. Toeppen as representative of
tne Engineering Department, and Benedict ?. Cottone as representing
tne Law Department, will assist the committee of Commissioners.
Dallas Smythe, Chief Economist, will also serve on the staff commit¬
tee,
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BROADCAST ENGINEERS AND TECHNICIANS ELIGIBLE FOR I!C" BOOKS
Radio broadcasting engineers and technicians were made
eligible for C gasoline rations necessary for transporting heavy
equipment to and from temporary broadcasting facilities by an order
issued Thursday by the Office of Price Administration, effective
March 17th,
Temporary facilities, It was pointed out, often are set up
for special broadcasts away from the radio station; for example, for
special broadcasts from Army camps. The equipment must be regarded
as non-portable to qualify engineers and technicians for C ration
books. Applicants also must show that alternative means of trans¬
portation are inadequate.
Previous regulations made radio broadcasting engineers and
technicians eligible for preferred mileage (C ration books) for
travel to and from permanent broadcasting facilities, located in
suburban or rural areas. The new action was taken in Amendment No.
29 to Ration Order No. 5C, effective March 17.
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MRS. ROOSEVELT SUGGESTS KAY KYSER BE DRAFTED
Shortly before Mrs. Roosevelt suggesting that Kay Kyser,
the radio band leader, be drafted, it became known that the Radio
Division of the Office of War Information had gone to the bat not
only for Kyser in his appeal to President Roosevelt from a X-A draft
classification, but also had written letters to local boards for
deferment of seven other radio stars. Douglas Meservey, head of the
Division, however, said that the Office of War Information had
ceased pressing for favorable rulings on these cases and that it
was no longer the policy of OWI to ask for such preference.
Kay Kyser* s own appeal from his X-A classification was
based on the contention that he is in essential war work because of
hos morale building activities. Elmer Davis said:
"We think he is doing more useful work now. " Kyser is a
Consultant on OWI * s Radio Advisory Committee and a leader in bond-
selling drives.
Commenting at Rochester, New York, on Kyser’ s request for
deferment, Mrs. Roosevelt said she believed draft deferment for
entertainers on morale building grounds should be handled "as
individual cases" and said she thought Kyser could be drafted and
then assigned to duties similar to his civilian activities.
"Such a move would accomplish the same morale building
results", she added.
The radio stars whose deferment OWI kept so quiet about
asking for were :
Edgar Bergen, Red Skelton, Bob Hope, Nelson Eddy, vreeman
Gosden (Amos of the Amos *n* Andy team), Lanny Ross, Harold Peary
(the Great Gilderslee ve ) .
The only man of those above mentioned to be deferred was
Edgar Bergen, OWI said, and it was understood that he was talking of
enlisting.
It is the practice of local boards to make a second check
as to whether the request still holds good when the person® s name
comes up, Mr. Meservey said. Such was the case with Ross, and the
OWI replied that it no longer was asking for his deferment.
Mr. Meservey said that if draft boards, of their own voli¬
tion, ask the OWI to outline the duties of any of its entertainer-
consultants, the agency will do so, but it will make it clear that
it is not asking for the deferment. Such requests are now lodged
only for paid employees of the OWI,
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OWI USES AXE ON SUPERFLUOUS GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS
More than 42,317,000 copies of Informational publications
and press releases of the Federal Government have been eliminated
in adjusting Government Information operations to wartime needs, the
Office of War Information announced Wednesday, Of the total reduc¬
tion, publications account for 34,528,000 copies and press releases
for 7,789,000 copies.
Elimination or curtailment of 309 Government periodicals
and pamphlet series was recently announced by the Office of War
Information, bringing to a total of 732 the publications so affected.
This represents a cut of about 20 per cent in Federal
Government informational publications published in 1940 - the year
prior to this country J s entrance into the war - when a total of
226,000,000 copies were issued.
These reductions, Elmer Davis pointed out, are a small
part of the Increases in publications necessitated by the war. The
cuts will ease the strain on manpower, paper, printing, and mailing
facilities.
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FCC ACTION
Tne Federal Communications Commission has taken the follow¬
ing action:
KAST, Astoria Broadcasting Co. , Astoria, Ore. , denied re¬
quest for authority to suspend operations for the duration of the
war and a specified period beyond that with the provision that the
license snail remain in the property of the Astoria Broadcasting Co.
for the time the suspension remains in effect; deferred action on
renewal of license in order that a statement may be obtained from
applicant as to whether or not it will continue operation; WpID,
The Petersburg Newspaper Corp. , Petersburg, Va. , denied request for
authority to suspend operations for the duration of the war; WLAP ,
American Broadcasting Corp. of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky. , adopted an
order denying petition for a grant of application for construction
permit insofar as it requests a change in frequency from 1450 to 630
kc; and set forth new issues upon which application will be heard.
Television - WMJT, The Journal Co., Milwaukee, Wis„, re¬
tained in pending files pursuant to policy recently announced, appli
cation for modification of construction permit for extension of com¬
pletion date indefinitely.
High Frequency Broadcast W49PH, Penna. Broadcasting Co.,
Philadelphia, Pa. , granted modification of construction permit to
extend completion date to July 22, 1943; granted license to cover
construction permit, in part; W73PH, Wm. Penn Broadcasting Co, , end
W57PH, Westinghouse Radio Stations, same as above.
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: TRADE NOTES 3
The Federal Communications Commission announced its
Decision and Order granting the application of Westchester Broadcast¬
ing Corp. (WFAS), White Plains, New York, for modification of license
to change frequency f rom 1240 to 1230 kc. , and increase operating
time from part-time sharing with WGBB, Freeport, N.Y. to unlimited
time. Commissioners Case and Craven voted "No".
Dr, L. Grant Hector, formerly with the Office of Scientific
Research and Development, has Joined the National Union Radio Corpo¬
ration, radio and electronic tube manufacturers, as Director of Engi¬
neering, it was announced on Thursday. He will be in charge of all
research and engineering activities in the company's laboratories
and plants in Newark, N. J. and Lansdale, Pa.
Hiram Motherwell, author, former magazine editor and for¬
eign correspondent, has joined the Columbia Broadcasting System's
Post War Department. Mr. Motherwell is the author of the book
recently published by Harper's, "The Peace We Fight For".
Arrangements made by Stanley P. Richardson, Manager of
NBC's London office, with the British Broadcasting Corp., has made
it possible for parents of Maryland troops stationed in England to
hear the voices of their sons through semi-weekly transcribed inter¬
views broadcast over WBAL, Baltimore. A representative of the
Baltimore News-Post requested Richardson's help in arranging for
the transcriptions. The BBC co-operated to the full extent of its
facilities and contributed the necessary materials gratis.
Radiomarine Corporation of America received the Maritime
Commission' s "M" award for outstanding war production earlier in the
week in a half-hour ceremony aired on Station WJZ at 3:15 P.M. EWT.
The award was presented by Rear Admiral Howard L, Vickery, Vice-
Chairman of the Maritime Commission,
"Radio Beams", a CBS column of news notes which has here¬
tofore been restricted, is now being offered to all radio editors
with the following note of explanation:
"This column, designed to help a busy radio editor, is a
weekly compendium of items from the publicity releases of the major
networks plus original material. It has been a favorite, for 4
years, of a special CBS mailing list. Now "Radio Beams" is being
made available to all editors. "
The commencement address "Radio, Music and the Future",
delivered by Thomas H. Belviso, of NBC's Music Division, at the
Bethany College graduation exercises has been reprinted by the
National Broadcasting Company,
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NEW RCA CIRCUIT LINKS DAKAR WITH NEW YORK
Extending direct radio communication service to another
sector important in United Nations war strategy, a radiotelegraph
circuit between New York and the West African key port of Dakar was
opened last Wednesday by R, C. A. Communications, Inc.
Formerly, telegraphic messages between the Unted States
and French West Africa were routed by way of London. With this dir¬
ect radio circuit in operation, message traffic will move much
faster and cheaper since RCAC announces a 15 pe 
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